Uniform error what does it mean?

[AxiomOfChoice]

"Uniform error"...what does it mean?

I'm reading a paper right now that talks about an error term being uniform under certain conditions. But what does it *mean* for an error term to be "uniform"? I have no idea.

Also, I recall having read some things about "uniform error estimates." Is this a similar notion?

 

[D H]

It means the error is drawn from a uniform distribution.

 

[AxiomOfChoice]

It means the error is drawn from a uniform distribution.

Thanks for your response, but that really means very little to me. I'm familiar with the uniform distribution, but I can't immediately make sense of "drawing error" from it. Do you mean that all errors (within some range) are equally probable?

 

[Bob S]

Uniform distribution may mean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_distribution_(continuous [Broken])

 

[Enuma_Elish]

Thanks for your response, but that really means very little to me. I'm familiar with the uniform distribution, but I can't immediately make sense of "drawing error" from it. Do you mean that all errors (within some range) are equally probable?

Surely that would be my interpretation.