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Care has been taken in assessing the precision of data when presented as values of non-dimensional groups. The form of non-dimensional groups can be chosen to readily enable correlations of results. Such correlations of values of non-dimensional groups can rank the importance of the physical variables. Correlation by statistical analysis has to be preceded by a dimensional analysis to avoid erroneous and spurious results.
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Gibbings, J. (2011). Assessing Experimental Correlations. In: Dimensional Analysis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-317-6_10
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