This book is about methodological aspects of uncertainty propagation in data processing. Uncertainty propagation is an important problem: while computer algorithms efficiently process data related to many aspects of their lives, most of these algorithms implicitly assume that the numbers they process are exact. In reality, these numbers come from measurements, and measurements are never 100% exact. Because of this, it makes no sense to translate 61 kg into pounds and get the result—as computers do—with 13 digit accuracy.In many cases—e.g., in celestial mechanics—the state of a system...
This book is about methodological aspects of uncertainty propagation in data processing. Uncertainty propagation is an important problem: while comput...
