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Password Sign in Sign in Sign in Registration Forgot password Expand/collapse global hierarchy Home Core Analytical error propagation physics Chemistry Quantifying Nature Expand/collapse global location Propagation of Error Last updated 20:33, 14 May 2016 Save as PDF Share Share Share Tweet Share IntroductionDerivation of Exact FormulaDerivation propagated error chemistry of Arithmetic ExampleCaveats and WarningsDisadvantages of Propagation of Error ApproachTreatment of Covariance TermsReferencesContributors Propagation of Error (or Propagation of Uncertainty) is defined as the effects on a function by a variable's uncertainty. It is a calculus derived statistical calculation designed to combine uncertainties from multiple variables, in order to provide an accurate measurement of uncertainty.
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Introduction Every measurement has an air of uncertainty about it, and not all uncertainties are equal. Therefore, the ability to properly combine uncertainties from different measurements is crucial. Uncertainty in measurement comes about in a variety of ways: instrument variability, different observers, sample differences, time of day, etc. Typically, error is given by the standard deviation (\(\sigma_x\)) of a measurement. Anytime a calculation requires more than one variable to solve, propagation of error is necessary to properly determine the uncertainty. For example, lets say we are using a UV-Vis Spectrophotometer to determine the molar absorptivity of a molecule via Beer's Law: A = ε l c. Since at least two of the variables have an uncertainty based on the equipment used, a propagation of error formula must be applied to measure a more exact uncertainty of the molar absorptivity. This example will be continued below, after the derivation (see Example Calculation). Derivation of Exact Formula Suppose a certain experiment requires mul
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ChemLab.Truman Home» Propagation of Uncertainty Author: J. M. McCormick Last Update: August 27, 2010 Introduction Every measurement that we make in the laboratory has some degree of uncertainty associated with it simply because no http://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Analytical_Chemistry/Quantifying_Nature/Significant_Digits/Propagation_of_Error measuring device is perfect. If a desired quantity can be found directly from a single measurement, then the uncertainty in the quantity is completely determined by the precision of the measurement. It is not so simple, however, when a quantity must be calculated from two or more measurements, each with their own uncertainty. In this case the precision of the final result depends on the uncertainties in each of http://chemlab.truman.edu/DataAnalysis/Propagation%20of%20Error/PropagationofError.asp the measurements that went into calculating it. In other words, uncertainty is always present and a measurement’s uncertainty is always carried through all calculations that use it. Fundamental Equations One might think that all we need to do is perform the calculation at the extreme of each variable’s confidence interval, and the result reflecting the uncertainty in the calculated quantity. Although this works in some instances, it usually fails, because we need to account for the distribution of possible values in all of the measured variables and how that affects the distribution of values in the calculated quantity. Although this seems like a daunting task, the problem is solvable, and it has been solved, but the proof will not be given here. The result is a general equation for the propagation of uncertainty that is given as Eqn. 1.2 In Eqn. 1 f is a function in several variables, xi, each with their own uncertainty, Δxi. (1) From Eqn. 1, it is possible to calculate the uncertainty in the function, Δf, if we know the uncertainties in each variable and the functional form of f (so we can calculate the partial derivatives with respect to each variable). It is easier to understand how this a
Treatments MSDS Resources Applets General FAQ Uncertainty ChemLab Home Computing Uncertainties in Laboratory Data and Result This section considers the error and uncertainty in experimental measurements and calculated results. First, here are some fundamental things you https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/info/resources/uncertain.html should realize about uncertainty: • Every measurement has an uncertainty associated with it, unless it is an exact, counted integer, such as the number of trials performed. • Every calculated result also has an uncertainty, related to the uncertainty in the measured data used to calculate it. This uncertainty should be reported either as an explicit ± value or as an implicit uncertainty, by using the error propagation appropriate number of significant figures. • The numerical value of a "plus or minus" (±) uncertainty value tells you the range of the result. For example a result reported as 1.23 ± 0.05 means that the experimenter has some degree of confidence that the true value falls in between 1.18 and 1.28. • When significant figures are used as an implicit way of indicating uncertainty, the error propagation formula last digit is considered uncertain. For example, a result reported as 1.23 implies a minimum uncertainty of ±0.01 and a range of 1.22 to 1.24. • For the purposes of General Chemistry lab, uncertainty values should only have one significant figure. It generally doesn't make sense to state an uncertainty any more precisely. To consider error and uncertainty in more detail, we begin with definitions of accuracy and precision. Then we will consider the types of errors possible in raw data, estimating the precision of raw data, and three different methods to determine the uncertainty in calculated results. Accuracy and Precision The accuracy of a set of observations is the difference between the average of the measured values and the true value of the observed quantity. The precision of a set of measurements is a measure of the range of values found, that is, of the reproducibility of the measurements. The relationship of accuracy and precision may be illustrated by the familiar example of firing a rifle at a target where the black dots below represent hits on the target: You can see that good precision does not necessarily imply good accuracy. However, if an instrument is
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