diff --git a/education/statistics/Measurement Error.md b/education/statistics/Measurement Error.md index 840e6fb..f5795fe 100644 --- a/education/statistics/Measurement Error.md +++ b/education/statistics/Measurement Error.md @@ -6,3 +6,14 @@ Bias *affects all measurements the same way, making them all too large or too sm ## Chance error Chance errors *change from measurement to measurement but average out over time*. There is no way to remove all chance errors from a measuring process. An example of chance error would be starting a stopwatch then attempting to stop it at exactly 5 seconds, then repeating. The times will vary, but each measurement will vary in a different way. +- Chance error is how much an individual measurement varies from the exact value. It can be positive or negative. +- The standard deviation of repeated measurements gives us the expected size of a chance error +``` +individual measurement = exact value + chance error +``` + +# Terminology +| Term | Definition | +| -- | -- | +| Best Guess | Average/Mean | +| Off by how much | standard deviation |