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After a day of thinking about about it (and reading on statistics!), here is the way I'm currently going for to treat the problem:
I'm considering the drawing of dots by the bigger beads as a random experiment as well (and neglecting quite a bit of experimental factors at the same...
Thank you very much for your help, I apologize for not having answered earlier. I 'm facing a deadline to submit a paper, it's keeping me rather busy...
The link provided by EnumaElish guided me to the resource I very much needed: a more solid book on statistics than what I had already. It...
Hello,
I'm familiar with the common calculus approach with partial derivatives to evaluate error propagation in calculations with random variables. However, I'm looking for a way to derive the classic formula with the sum of fractional errors squared:
{\left(\frac{\Delta Z}{Z}\right)}^2 =...