Extension: uncertainty

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Extension uncertainty - Detailed Descriptions

FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Maturity Level: 1

Informative

Use Context: Any

Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.

Extension
Definition	The primary measure of variance/uncertainty of the value (the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences between all data points and the mean).
Control	0..1 This element is affected by the following invariants: ele-1
Comments	standardDeviation has the same units as the quantity. It is used to normalize the data for computing the distribution function. Applications that cannot deal with probability distributions can still get an idea about the confidence level by looking at standardDeviation.
Invariants	Defined on this element ele-1: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath: @value\|f:\|h:div) ext-1: Must have either extensions or value[x], not both (xpath: exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')]))
Extension.id
Definition	unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Extension.extension
Definition	An Extension
Control	0..0
Type	Extension
Slicing	This element introduces a set of slices. The slicing rules are: unordered Open discriminators: value:url
Extension.url
Definition	Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.
Control	1..1
Type	uri
Comments	The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension.
Fixed Value	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/iso21090-uncertainty
Extension.valueDecimal
Definition	Value of extension - may be a resource or one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility in the spec for list).
Control	0..1
Type	decimal