A Practical Handbook on Measurement Uncertainty : FAQs and Fundamentals for Metrologists.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rishi, Swanand.

Series:

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measurement uncertainty (Statistics).

Metrology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

The purpose of this book is to give insight, conceptual clarity as well as practical guidance related to evaluation of measurement uncertainty.

Contents:

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Declaration

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Author biography

Swanand Rishi

List of abbreviations

List of symbols

How to read this book

Chapter Using correct terminology

1.1 Quantity and quantity value

1.2 The measurand and parameter

1.3 Accuracy and precision

1.4 Standard uncertainty and uncertainty contribution

1.5 Error, uncertainty, and expanded uncertainty

References

Chapter Why do we need to evaluate uncertainty?

Chapter Should we talk about the 'evaluation' or 'calculation' of uncertainty?

Reference

Chapter What uncertainty is not

References and further reading

Chapter Various error terms and bias

Chapter The Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM)-the new approach

Chapter The law of propagation of uncertainty

Chapter Why is standard deviation used instead of variance?

Chapter Using pooled standard deviation

Chapter Some uncommon uncertainties

Chapter The Normal distribution, the t-distribution, and the standard Normal distribution

Chapter Do Type A and Type B evaluations correspond to random and systematic errors?

Chapter What about reproducibility in uncertainty evaluation?

Chapter How is it that we can combine different distributions?

Chapter Guidelines for the selection of triangular and trapezoidal distributions

Chapter Aren't higher confidence level and larger uncertainty contradictory?

Chapter Mind the correlations

17.1 The correlation coefficient

Chapter Sampling distributions

18.1 Sampling error

Chapter The sample size dilemma

References.

Chapter Sample size-another approach

Chapter Addressing the uncertainty of a single measurement

21.1 How do we proceed if no such information of previous data or history is available?

Chapter Why is degrees of freedom generally (n − 1) in type A method of evaluation?

Chapter Why is degrees of freedom generally '∞' in type B evaluation?

Chapter Effective degrees of freedom-some considerations

Chapter What is the significance of the sensitivity coefficient?

Chapter Dealing with corrections

Chapter The test uncertainty ratio: use only as a guiding phenomenon

Chapter Guarding conformity decisions

28.1 What is a guard band?

Chapter Treating dominant non-Gaussian components

Chapter Sample analysis-how normal is the Normal?

Chapter Sample analysis-detecting the outliers

Chapter Analyzing the results

32.1 Analysis of the results

Chapter The proper reporting of uncertainty

Chapter Alternative approaches in uncertainty evaluation

Chapter Some important notes in the GUM

Chapter

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Print version: Rishi, Swanand A Practical Handbook on Measurement Uncertainty

ISBN:

9780750364607

OCLC:

1451412789