Evaluating the measurement uncertainty

Fundamentals and practical guidance

Ignacio Lira

244 pages, parution le 22/05/2002

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Résumé

General rules for evaluating and expressing the uncertainty are given in the internationally accepted ISO Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, generally known as the GUM. The present practical handbook, Evaluating The Measurement Uncertainty, details the theoretical framework in which the GUM is based and provides additional material on more advanced topics such as least-squares adjustment and Bayesian statistics. It does not require previous knowledge other than elementary calculus, and can be read as a complement to the GUM or as a stand-alone reference source. It stresses fundamental principles and illustrates their applications through numerous examples taken from many different fields of metrology. The inclusion of practical guidance in addition to the theoretical aspects results in a text that will be invaluable to metrologists, engineers, physicists and graduate students involved with measurements in academia and industry.

Contents

Preface
Metrology, its role in today's world
Basic concepts and definitions
Evaluating the standard uncertainty
Evaluating the expanded uncertainty
The joint treatment of several measurands
Bayesian inference
Appendix : Probability tables
Glossary
References
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Auteur(s)	Ignacio Lira
Parution	22/05/2002
Nb. de pages	244
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	582g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750308403
ISBN13	978-0-7503-0840-3