Compute process standard deviation

Description

This function computes the process standard deviation and is used internally by the function precision.grubbs.ncb.od.

Usage

process.sd(x)

Arguments

Details

The process standard deviation is the standard deviation of the true values uncontaminated by measurement error. See Jaech, p. 185.

Value

A scalar containing the method of moments estimate of the process standard deviation.

Author(s)

Richard A. Bilonick

References

Jaech, J. L. (1985) Statistical Analysis of Measurement Errors. New York: Wiley.

See Also

precision.grubbs.ncb.od

Examples

data(pm2.5)
process.sd(pm2.5) # estimate of the sd of the "true values using the method of moments")

Results