Re: Tolerance Question

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:12:09 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I read in sci.electronics.design that Joshua Guthrie
><listservs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in
><1113499294.813444.94550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'Tolerance
>Question', on Thu, 14 Apr 2005:
>
>>My question is how do i compute my new standard deviation of the
>>combination of the two sensors? I want to know my new tolerance. Or
>>am I way off shore in my thinking.
>
>You are getting off-beam answers because you are asking a statistics
>problem in an electronics newsgroup.
>
>The combined distribution due to two sensors is no longer
>Gaussian/normal but bimodal. I think you need to ask on a math or stats
>newsgroup.


A single batch of sensors may have a bimodal distribution if the
better ones have been culled from the batch. Sort of a gaussian with
the edges clipped and a big notch in the middle.

John

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