On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
They don't present the actual SD here: > http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/en/follow/follow-2/285-us-eu-cell-calibration-results > . > > We can get it by working backwards. (.25/1.96=.13) > I was working backwards from 2.5 W at 95 percent confidence, working on the assumption that a 95 percent interval implied ~2 standard deviations [1]. It's been a while since I took statistics, so I could be wrong in my thinking. But I doubt their result is 19 sigma. That would be pretty much irrefutable unless there were some kind of systematic error. Eric [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rule
