I have a number of measurements of the same quantity (in this case, the speed of sound in a material). Each of these measurements has their own uncertainty.
v1±Δv1
Since they're measurements of the same quantity, all the values of v are roughly equal. I can, of course, calculate the mean:
v=∑Ni=1viN
What would the uncertainty in v be? In the limit that all the Δvi are small, then Δv should be the standard deviation of the vi. If the Δvi are large, then Δv should be something like √∑iΔv2iN, right?
So what is the formula for combining these uncertainties? I don't think it's the one given in this answer (though I may be wrong) because it doesn't look like it behaves like I'd expect in the above limits (specifically, if the Δvi are zero then that formula gives Δv=0, not the standard deviation of the vi).
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