The reason why error assignment is required is so that the experimental measurements can be compared to the theoretical predictions.

If error assignment is not done, the measurement is useless. On top of that, error assignments must be designed in such a way that it can be done without knowledge of the experimental/measurement procedures. Subsequently, errors can be combined for more than one experimental measurement. Things to note about displaying errors in measurements: 1. At most two significant figures assign to the error (Any more significant figures suggest that the experimentalist knows a lot of sources of error, which is not possible). 2. The measurement and its error must be at the same significant figures.

Measurements can be a input quantities (From measuring instruments) or they can be derived quantities (From the input quantities). The input quantities will be described. It is an observation made by the experimentalist and it can be thought of as a random variable x extracted from an underlying distribution, which is centred at the true value. The true value is something that the experimentalist does not know. The measuring process will then determine what kind of distribution the random variable will follow. The measured value (something that is done by the experimentalist) and its error will be estimates of the true value and standard deviation of the underlying distribution. One thing to note for is that when there are a few independent measurements. The resulting error is the sum of the individual errors. Suppose that the experimentalist is able to repeat the measurement infinitely number of times, the average values from the measurements will coincide to the true value eventually.