Statistics and the question of standards

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 779-789

  Stigler, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Least squares; Normal distribution; Sampling; Standards; Standards of tolerance; Statistics; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844281883     PISSN: 1044677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6028/jres.101.074     Document Type: Article

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