Error and Complementary Error Functions

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Error and Complementary Error FunctionsReadingProblemsOutlineBackgroun d. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Gaussian function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Error function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Complementary Error function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Relations and Selected Values of Error Functions .

The Gaussian function or the Gaussian probability distribution is one of the most fundamen-tal functions. The Gaussian probability distribution with mean and standard deviation ˙ is a normalized Gaussian function of the form G(x) = 1 p 2ˇ˙ e (x )2=(2˙2) (1.1) where G(x), as shown in the plot below, gives the probability that a variate with ...

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