Combining inconsistent data from interlaboratory comparisons

Metrologia

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-421

  Lira, Ignacio ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA REDUCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

INTERLABORATORY COMPARISONS; INVERSE-VARIANCE WEIGHTED MEAN;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

EID: 38549164689     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/44/5/019     Document Type: Article

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