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How many of the digits in a mean of 12.3456789012 are worth reporting?

OBJECTIVE: A computer program tells me that a mean value is 12.3456789012, but how many of these digits are significant (the rest being random junk)? Should I report: 12.3?, 12.3456?, or even 10 (if only the first digit is significant)? There are several rules-of-thumb but, surprisingly (given that...

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Autor principal: Clymo, R. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30885264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4175-6

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