Preferred Label : experimental perturbational calculation;
IUPAC definition : To assess the uncertainty of derived final results from a least-squares procedure
one can investigate the sensitivity of output data for errors in the input data by
means of this calculation. One performs the calculations many times with perturbed
input data and studies the relation between the changes (perturbations) in the input
data and the changes in the output data. The perturbations are preferably generated
using random numbers with a distribution function chosen to mimic the distribution
of uncertainties in the primary results.;
Origin ID : E02273;
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To assess the uncertainty of derived final results from a least-squares procedure
one can investigate the sensitivity of output data for errors in the input data by
means of this calculation. One performs the calculations many times with perturbed
input data and studies the relation between the changes (perturbations) in the input
data and the changes in the output data. The perturbations are preferably generated
using random numbers with a distribution function chosen to mimic the distribution
of uncertainties in the primary results.
