Measurement Errors in R Articles uri icon

publication date

  • December 2018

start page

  • 549

end page

  • 557

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 10

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2073-4859

abstract

  • This paper presents an R package to handle and represent measurements with errors in a very simple way. We briefly introduce the main concepts of metrology and propagation of uncertainty, and discuss related R packages. Building upon this, we introduce the errors package, which provides a class for associating uncertainty metadata, automated propagation and reporting. Working with errors enables transparent, lightweight, less error-prone handling and convenient representation of measurements with errors. Finally, we discuss the advantages, limitations and future work of computing with errors.

subjects

  • Statistics
  • Telecommunications