Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Standard deviation question?

If I have a number with 4 sig figs (0.8106) and the standard deviation is (0.04183), should I leave the standard deviation as it is, with 4 sig figs, or truncate it to 3 sig figs (0.0418) so it doesn't go past the last digit of the original number?

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