[tei-council] Feature request 1933198: 'precision' element needed

[Gabriel Bodard]

I think the @stdDeviation attribute would be useful in precisely the 
sort of case that Tim was arguing for: namely where someone wants to 
record the precision of a figure or range with more statistical rigour 
than we are generally used to (I suspect 99% of the time most of us 
would be happy just to say "circa"). But with archaeological data, or 
geographical coordinates, or discussions of ages and durations, I can 
certainly imagine people wanting both to be able to give ranges and 
confidences and standard deviations.

Standard deviation is so... um... standard, that I'd prefer not to have 
half a dozen projects inventing their own way to record it when we could 
standardize.

Gabby

Peter Boot a écrit :
> Most of the proposal seems reasonable. I find it hard to think of a case 
> when one would need a stdDeviation attribute though. It seems to me the 
> kind of thing a project might add in its customisation.
> 
> Peter
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