Some useful equations

This appendix contains some intermediate results in the calculation of the error on the slope in the case of equally spaced measurements.

The well-known expressions

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and

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allow us to obtain the following results for equally space measurements:

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and for the parameter in the straight-line-fit error expressions we get

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