Bayesian statistics in radionuclide metrology: Measurement of a decaying source

Metrologia

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Bochud, François O ^a   Bailat, Claude J ^a   Laedermann, Jean Pascal ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NEUTRON SOURCES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; OBSERVABLE QUANTITY;

RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 34547668789     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/44/4/S13     Document Type: Article

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