Calculations of measurement uncertainty in complex-valued quantities involving 'uncertainty in the uncertainty'

64th ARFTG Microwave Measurements Conference: Digital Communications Systems Metrics, ARFTG 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 15-22

  Hall, B D ^a  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; CLASSICAL STATISTICS; COMPLEX-VALUED; COMPLEX-VALUED QUANTITIES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SCALE FACTOR; SIMULATED DATASETS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845578671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARFTGF.2004.1427565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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