A comparative analysis of the statistical and random-fuzzy approaches in the expression of uncertainty in measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1475-1481

  Ferrero, Alessandro ^a   Salicone, Simona ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Measurement uncertainty; Monte Carlo method; Power quality measurement; Random fuzzy method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FUZZY SETS; INSTRUMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; POWER QUALITY MEASUREMENT; RANDOM FUZZY METHOD;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT;

EID: 23344437823     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.851079     Document Type: Article

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