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On the Effect of Decimal Corrections on Errors of Observation

On the Effect of Decimal Corrections on Errors of Observation

Let $t$ be the true value of what is being measured and suppose that the error of observation is a symmetric normal distribution of standard deviation $\sigma$. The "rounding-off" error due to the reading of measurements to the nearest unit has a distribution and an expected value depending on $t$ …