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All measurements, no matter how carefully undertaken have errors. These errors need to be quantified so that differing experiments can be compared. Results may have precision, self-consistent, and/or accuracy close to the real result. Results may have random, and/or which Systemic Errors be addressed. This chapter expains the techniques for calculating and minimising the errors within an experiment as well as methods to propagate the errors when performing mathematical operations on the results.
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Gallaway, M. (2016). Errors. In: An Introduction to Observational Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23377-2_11
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