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Re:Data scientists need to learn about significant digits by wdkrnls on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:21PM (#38767299)
No, they need to learn the importance of transparency. Chemists need to learn that too but I am not holding my breathe. They are too busy trying not to blow themselves up to care. Significant digits, like prediction intervals and confidence intervals are all rendered meaningless by misunderstanding from just one thing of a great many implicit assumptions upstream of the analysis.

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