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Combined uncertainty

In most cases a parameter, eg Y, is not measured directly, but is determined from N other input quantities X 1 , X 2 , …. , X N , through a functional relationship f :

1 2 N Y f ( X , X ,.....X ) =

The input quantities X 1 probability distribution.

, X

, ..., X

N are – of course – also subject to

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