Uncertainty of experimental integrals: Application to the UV index calculation

Metrologia

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Cordero, Raul R ^a,b   Seckmeyer, Gunther ^a   Pissulla, Darius ^a   Labbe, Fernando ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTERPOLATION; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE; UNCERTAINTY OF INTEGRALS; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION TECHNIQUE;

ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 38949142964     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/45/1/001     Document Type: Article

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