RE: [boost] Interval Wrinkles

From: Paul A. Bristow (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-16 16:20:10

Some measurements have this property (some balance weights for example).

But I think an 'uncertain library' might be derived from the interval library
(and from the SI quantity library too).

(From what I have done on an 'uncertain library' following from the work

// Based on code by Evan Manning (manning_at_[hidden])
// Evan Marshal Manning C/C++ Users Journal, March 1996 page 29 to 38.
// original downloaded from ftp://beowulf.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/manning
// A fuller collection of even fancier classes also given in UReal.h.

My uncertain class has a value, standard deviation, degrees of freedom, and 16
uncertainty type flags - square, triangular, gaussian, exact etc

Depending on the type, for example, one might use the legendary

 Welch-Satterthwaite - see NIST Appendix A3 Appendix B-1.

or some other propagation of uncertainty).

But lets try to walk with the interval library for starters...

Paul

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Paul

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> On Wednesday, 16 April 2003 20:54, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
> >
> > If one is using intervals to hold measurement and computational
> > uncertainty, I don't feel this matters - though for purer
> > mathemetical applications you are certainly corrent.
>
> The interval library isn't useful for computations involving uncertain
> measurements, since it treats the interval as a square wave with rigid
> limits, not a gaussian distribution.
>
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