Measurement, models, and uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2144-2152

  Giordani, Alessandro ^a   Mari, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b CREMS Centre for Research on Health Economics Social and Health Care Management Carlo Cattaneo University LIUC   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; measurement; modeling; transducers; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GENERAL MODEL; KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROCESS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; RELATIONS BETWEEN MODELS; UNCERTAINTY;

CALIBRATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS; TRANSDUCERS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863980905     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2193695     Document Type: Article

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