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Statistical Treatment of Data
Statistical Treatment of Data
•Average Deviation. d xi x
N
x x
N
2
i
•Standard Deviation s
i 1
N 1
Distribution of Experimental Data
s
sm
N
The t-Distribution
R R x1 , x2 ,, xn
wR is the uncertainty in the result.
Given data: xi , yi
Linear Regression using least squares
analysis:
attempts to minimize the sum of the vertical
distances from the points
N to the straight
2 line,
that is: min S yi mx i b
i 1
N xi yi xi yi
m
N xi xi
2 2
in particular,
Correlations and Correlation
Coefficient
Given data: xi , yi
But, we might equally well have written instead
x my b
N xi yi xi yi
Then, m
N yi yi
2 2
Correlations and Correlation
Coefficient
Given data: xi , yi
Correlation Coefficient= r m m
r 1 Perfect correlation
r 0 No correlation