ANALYSIS OF CONSISTENCY OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS FOR THE EXPRESSION OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE PRESENT INTERNATIONAL WRITTEN STANDARDS AND GUIDES
Franco Pavese
Abstract:
At present, several international written standards and guides are available, dealing with the expression of uncertainty in measurement, calibration and testing, and concerning the definition of the basic concepts and related nomenclature and basic methods for data analysis. An inspection and comparison of these texts, which were prepared in a time span of more than twenty years, shows that, to different degrees, not all of them are consistent with each other, probably due mainly to an advancement of the discussion and of agreed solutions that took place in the indicated time span and that can be observed for most of them.
The paper addresses an attempt to identify what appears as more or less serious inconsistencies that in author’s view should be removed in the process of revision, already started for several of them, and that may communicate a sense of confusion especially at the floor-user level.
Exploring New Frontiers of Instrumentation and Methods for Electrical and Electronic Measurements
Title:
XVIth IMEKO TC4 International Symposium on Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation (together with 13th IMEKO TC4 Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing)
