On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, _brian_d_foy wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Perl Authors Upload Server 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
>>
>>   modid:       Statistics::ErrorPropagation
>
>>     If we want to calculate a function of a number of variables which
>>     are statistical data (a common situation in science) then we must
>>     know how the errors of the data combine to form, the final error on
>>     the function.
>
>i'm not sure this belongs in Statistics...
>
>is this for basic arithmetic with numbers with uncertainities?
>
>does it define objects for those sorts of numbers?  a module to
>represent that might be live in another namespace.

That's about it, yes. I'm open to suggestions about a more appropriate
namespace.

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