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Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma (<math>\sqrt{138}= 11.7</math>) counts per hour.
 
Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma (<math>\sqrt{138}= 11.7</math>) counts per hour.
  
The cosmic ray telescope sounting experiment appears to be following Poisson statistics.
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The cosmic ray telescope counting experiment appears to be following Poisson statistics.
 
[http://www.iac.isu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Statistics_for_Experimenters See Statistics for Experimentalists]
 
[http://www.iac.isu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Statistics_for_Experimenters See Statistics for Experimentalists]

Revision as of 16:56, 5 September 2007

Plateau Zeroing
Time Start Time Stop Time elapsed (min.) Thresholds on both Scintillators Singles Count (on top) Coinc. Counts Coinc. per minute Angle measure
1:35 pm on 8/31 1:10 pm on 9/04 5725 min 225 626816 1654 .2889 75 degrees


Time Start Time Stop Time elapsed (hour) Singles Count (on top) Coinc. Counts Coinc. per hour [math]\sqrt{N}[/math] [math](x_i-\bar{x})^2[/math]
1:20 pm 2:20 pm 1 5694 127 127 11.3 121
2:20 pm 3:20 pm 1 4896 136 136 11.6 4
3:20 pm 4:20 pm 1 4655 151 151 12.2 169


Mean [math]\mu[/math] = 138 counts per hour

Instrumental Uncertainty =[math]\sigma = \sqrt{\frac{\sum (x_i - \bar{x})^2}{N-1}} = 12.12[/math] counts per hour

Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma ([math]\sqrt{138}= 11.7[/math]) counts per hour.

The cosmic ray telescope counting experiment appears to be following Poisson statistics. See Statistics for Experimentalists