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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.

Michelson's errors against the normal

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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