Error Propagation Class

This class automatically performs error propagation in Matlab expressions.
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Updated 27 Sep 2007

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This class, called "meas" (meaning measurement with uncorrelated error), contains two elements. A "meas" can be created with the constructor function:

>> d = meas();

and values can be assigned to the two elements.

>> d.value = 1;
>> d.error = .3;

The values can also be displayed:

>> d
1 +/- 0.3

I overloaded the +,-,*,/,^,>,<,==,>=,<= operators to perform the error propagation for each of these operators. The comparison operators work to within 1-sigma. For example, (1.0 +/- .3) == (.9 +/- .3) would return "true".

In this early version, this only works for single numbers, and just for the operators listed above. In the future, I plan to overload many common functions (sin(x) and such...), and make support for matrices and arrays. Comments and changes are most welcome, especially since this is my first Matlab code in which I have made my own class.

Thanks to Kevin Murphy's site,
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/matlabObjects.html
for helpful basic information on writing a class.

Cite As

Sean Bryan (2024). Error Propagation Class (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16606-error-propagation-class), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2007a
Compatible with any release
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

I couldn't spell "propagation"...sad. At least the code works!