The principle of maximum entropy applied in the evaluation of the measurement uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 717-722

  Iuculano, Gaetano ^a   Nielsen, Lars ^b   Zanobini, Andrea ^a   Pellegrini, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b DANISH FUNDAMENTAL METROLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy; Measurement uncertainty; Probability distribution assignment

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY;

ENTROPY;

EID: 34249050112     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.894915     Document Type: Article

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