Uncertainty evaluation associated with fitting geometric surfaces to coordinate data

Metrologia

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Forbes, Alistair B ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

COORDINATE DATA; ORTHOGONAL DISTANCE REGRESSION (ODR); RANDOM EFFECTS; UNCERTAINTIES;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

EID: 33746919052     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/43/4/S16     Document Type: Article

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