A comparison of location estimators for interlaboratory data contaminated with value and uncertainty outliers

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 13, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 193-216

  Duewer, David Lee ^a  

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

Author keywords

Consensus value; Interlaboratory comparisons; Measurement uncertainty; Mixture models; Monte Carlo evaluation; Probability density function; Robustness; Weighting function

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149148709     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-008-0360-3     Document Type: Article

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