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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. 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 error propagation average 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 multiple instruments to carry out. These instruments each have different variability in their measurements. The results of each instrument are given as: a, b, c, d... (For simplification purposes, only the variables a, b, and c will be used throughout this derivation). The end result desired is \(x\), so that \(x\) is dependent
The approach to uncertainty analysis that has been followed up to this point in the discussion has been what is called a top-down approach. Uncertainty components are estimated from direct repetitions of the measurement result. To contrast this with a error propagation chemistry propagation of error approach, consider the simple example where we estimate the area uncertainty calculator of a rectangle from replicate measurements of length and width. The area $$ area = length \cdot width $$ can be fractional uncertainty computed from each replicate. The standard deviation of the reported area is estimated directly from the replicates of area. Advantages of top-down approach This approach has the following advantages: proper treatment of covariances http://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Analytical_Chemistry/Quantifying_Nature/Significant_Digits/Propagation_of_Error between measurements of length and width proper treatment of unsuspected sources of error that would emerge if measurements covered a range of operating conditions and a sufficiently long time period independence from propagation of error model Propagation of error approach combines estimates from individual auxiliary measurements The formal propagation of error approach is to compute: standard deviation from the length measurements standard deviation from the width measurements http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/mpc/section5/mpc55.htm and combine the two into a standard deviation for area using the approximation for products of two variables (ignoring a possible covariance between length and width), $$ s_{area} = \sqrt{width^2 \cdot s_{length}^2 + length^2 \cdot s_{width}^2} $$ Exact formula Goodman (1960) derived an exact formula for the variance between two products. Given two random variables, \(x\) and \(y\) (correspond to width and length in the above approximate formula), the exact formula for the variance is: $$ V(\bar{x} \bar{y}) = \frac{1}{n} \left[ X^2 V(y) + Y^2 V(x) + 2XYE_{11} + 2X\frac{E_{12}}{n} + 2Y\frac{E_{21}}{n} + \frac{V(x) V(y)}{n} + \frac{Cov((\Delta x)^2, (\Delta y)^2) -E_{11}^2 }{n^2} \right] $$ with \(X = E(x)\) and \(Y = E(y)\) (corresponds to width and length, respectively, in the approximate formula) \(V(x)\) is the variance of \(x\) and \(V(y)\) is the variance \(y\) (corresponds to \(s^2\) for width and length, respectively, in the approximate formula) \( E_{ij} = {(\Delta x)^i, (\Delta y)^j}\) where \( \Delta x = x - X \) and \( \Delta y = y - Y \) \( Cov((\Delta x)^2, (\Delta y)^2) = E_{22} - V(x) V(y) \) To obtain the standard deviation, simply take the square root of the above formula. Also, an e
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