Truth and Traceability in Physics and Metrology

ISBN-13: 9781643270937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 81 str.

Michael Grabe

Opis

Discusses a new error concept dispensing with the common practice to randomize unknown systematic errors. Instead, unknown systematic errors are treated as what they physically are - namely as constants being unknown with respect to magnitude and sign.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Author biography
• 1. Basics of metrology
• 2. Some statistics
• 3. Measurement uncertainties
• 4. Method of least squares
• 5. Fitting of straight lines
• 6. Features of least squares estimators
• 7. Prospects
• 8. Epilogue
• References and suggested reading