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Now you see the Standard Deviation Result in the same screen. You can enable or
Here you see alignment results in the Measure screen, after readings
disable the appearance of this information at will. However, we recommend that you
have
been
information.
[Please
click]
do
enable
it. taken,
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and very powerful
feature
that only
your
Ultra has, and it can make the difference in achieving certain critical alignments.
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Even if you have SD turned off in the main Measure Screen, you can
still see the SD value in the Measurement Table.
Just scroll to the right a little.
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Suppose youre planning a party for a group of kids. All you are told is:
the average age of the group is 10.
Look at the ages: scattered all the way from 2 to 20. Ask yourself: How
successful is my party going to be if I plan it around activities suitable
for age 10?
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Obviously, your party will be a bomb. Lets look at the distribution of ages again: [Please click]
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If we take the
ellipse, cut it,
and lay it out
flat, we get the
deviation diagram shown here.
This is called
Broken Ellipse
view in the Ultra.
Notice that one
point seems to
be way out of
the pattern or
average track
of the others.
Clearly, this particular point represents an aberration of some sort.
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Taking the
aberrant point
into consideration will affect
the calculated
results harmfully. It would
skew the average. It should
be deleted from
consideration.
How would you
ever know this
is happening?
A high Standard Deviation value would immediately alert you.
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...select Max point. This will automatically select the point with the
highest deviation in the group when you press the
key. [Please click]
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The SD dropped all the way down to 2.19! You can continue disabling
points the same way until you are satisfied that your SD value is low
enough that you can rely on the quality of the remaining data.
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The red point is clearly not on the standard track of the others.
It is an aberrant point and should be disabled.
The Standard Deviation will improve significantly.
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0 SD 1.0 mils
0 SD 0.5 mils
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This is the SD bell curve. What this shows is that in a normal distribution
of measured values, 68.2% of your data will always fall within one SD of
the mean, and 95.4% of your data will fall within 2 SDs, and 99.6% of the
data will fall within 3 SDs. The important thing to remember is that the
actual value of the SD should be kept low.
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