Accuracy comparison between techniques for the establishment of calibration intervals: Application to atomic clocks

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 458-462

  Macii, D ^a   Tavella, P ^b   Perone, E ^b   Carbone, P ^a   Petri, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ATOMIC CLOCKS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TESTING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

SIMPLE RESPONSE METHOD (SRM);

ATOMIC CLOCKS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACCURACY COMPARISONS; CALIBRATION INTERVALS; CESIUM ATOMIC CLOCKS; CROSS VALIDATION; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; METROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL CALIBRATION; SIMPLE RESPONSE METHODS;

EID: 0038507722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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