2nd DSTU Draft For Comment

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Extension-iso21090-uncertainty.json

Raw JSON (canonical form)

Standard Deviation (same units as the quantity)

{
  "resourceType": "ExtensionDefinition",
  "id": "iso21090-uncertainty",
  "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/iso21090-uncertainty",
  "name": "Standard Deviation (same units as the quantity)",
  "publisher": "HL7",
  "contact": [
    {
      "telecom": [
        {
          "system": "url",
          "value": "http://www.hl7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description": "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).",
  "status": "draft",
  "date": "2012-06-24",
  "mapping": [
    {
      "identity": "rim",
      "uri": "http://hl7.org/v3",
      "name": "RIM"
    }
  ],
  "contextType": "datatype",
  "context": [
    "Quantity"
  ],
  "element": [
    {
      "path": "Extension",
      "short": "Standard Deviation (same units as the quantity)",
      "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).",
      "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.",
      "min": 0,
      "max": "1",
      "type": [
        {
          "code": "decimal"
        }
      ],
      "mapping": [
        {
          "identity": "rim",
          "map": "PPD.standardDeviation"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.