Evaluation of resistance-temperature calibration equations for NTC thermistors

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1103-1111

  Chen, Chiachung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Calibration equation; NTC thermistors; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

BASIC EQUATIONS; CALIBRATION EQUATION; CALIBRATION EQUATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; NARROW TEMPERATURE RANGES; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES METHODS; NTC THERMISTORS; POLYNOMIAL EQUATION; SENSING ELEMENTS; TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE VALUES;

CALIBRATION; CURVE FITTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PUMPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMISTORS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 67349268137     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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