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Error propagation calculator and library for physical measurements. It supports real and complex numbers with uncertainty, arbitrary precision calculations, operations with arrays, and numerical integration.

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add Statistics.mean and Statistics.std as aliases for value and uncertainty

simeonschaub opened this issue · comments

commented

My main motivation behind this is that MonteCarloMeasurements.jl already overloads these, so I believe this would make for better interchangeability between both approaches. Personally, I also find them more convenient to write than value and uncertainty, so it also might be worth then exporting them.

commented

This is interesting, but my fear is that one may accidentally strip the uncertainty out in generic code that doesn't know about Measurements, as mean would have a different semantic meaning for, say, Float64 and Measurement. Thus, I'm not really convinced this is a good idea.

commented

Given how a silent conversion to Float64 caused so many troubles in #64 I'm more and more inclined to not do this.