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Michelson's errors against the normal
A hundred speed-of-light runs plotted against the normal quantiles they would sit on if only chance moved them, with the quartile line for reference.

Source
Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import {
GeomQq,
GeomQqLine,
GGPlot,
Labs,
ThemeClassic,
} from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { michelson } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot data={michelson} aes={{ sample: "velocity" }} width={640} height={400}>
<ThemeClassic />
<Labs
title="Were Michelson's errors normal?"
subtitle="His 100 runs against the normal they would follow if only chance moved them"
x="Normal quantile"
y="Speed of light, km/s less 299,000"
/>
<GeomQq size={2.5} alpha={0.85} />
<GeomQqLine linewidth={1.2} alpha={0.7} />
</GGPlot>
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