Bayesian uncertainty analysis compared with the application of the GUM and its supplements

Metrologia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Elster, Clemens ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; GUM; uncertainty evaluation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; BAYESIAN UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; GUIDE TO THE EXPRESSION OF UNCERTAINTY IN MEASUREMENTS; GUM; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION PROBLEM; UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901679468     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/51/4/S159     Document Type: Article

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