Trapezoidal and triangular distributions for Type B evaluation of standard uncertainty

Metrologia

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-127

  Kacker, Raghu N ^a   Lawrence, James F ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT THEORY; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDIZATION;

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); GUIDE TO THE EXPRESSION OF UNCERTAINTY IN MEASUREMENT (GUM); INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION (ISO);

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047197126     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/44/2/003     Document Type: Article

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