Difference between revisions of "Root mean square error (RMS)"

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Source: Nick Ward, IALA e-Nav committee vicechair, March 2009
Source: Nick Ward, Vicechair, IALA e-Nav Committee, March 2009


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Latest revision as of 11:44, 4 February 2024

A means of expressing the variability of a measurement in one dimension – by summing the squares of the errors, dividing by the number of observations and taking the square root. In this one-dimensional case, the RMS error is also an estimate of the standard deviation of the errors.


Source: Nick Ward, Vicechair, IALA e-Nav Committee, March 2009