Measurement uncertainty

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 413-417

  Bartley, David ^a   Lidén, Göran ^b  

^a Annals of Occupational Hygiene   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Bias; Non central Student's t distribution; Systematic error; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIR QUALITY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; STUDENT T TEST; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; UNCERTAINTY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 49449114632     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/men034     Document Type: Note

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