Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results (rev. Ed. )
Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results (rev. Ed. )

Author: Barry N. Taylor

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1437915566

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Results of measurements and conclusions derived from them constitute much of the technical information produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In July 1992 the Director of NIST appointed an Ad Hoc Committee on Uncertainty Statements and charged it with recommending a policy on this important topic. The Committee concluded that the CIPM approach could be used to provide quantitative expression of measurement that would satisfy NIST¿s customers¿ requirements. NIST initially published a Technical Note on this issue in Jan. 1993. This 1994 edition addresses the most important questions raised by recipients concerning some of the points it addressed and some it did not. Illustrations.

Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results
Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results

Author: B. N. Taylor

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Results of measurements and conclusions derived from them constitute much of the technical information produced by NIST. It is generally agreed that the usefulness of measurement results, and thus much of the information that we provide as an institution, is to a large extent determined by the quality of the statements of uncertainty that accompany them. For example, only if quantitative and thoroughly documented statements of uncertainty accompany the results of NIST calibrations can the users of our calibration services establish their level of traceability to the U.S. standards of measurement maintained at NIST.

Designs for the Calibration of Standards of Mass
Designs for the Calibration of Standards of Mass

Author: Joseph M. Cameron

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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This report presents a collection of designs for the intercomparison of sets of weights for use in precision calibration of standards of mass. These include a number of previously unpublished designs which have an additional weight in each set to serve as the check standard for monitoring the performance of the weighing process. Also included are the classical designs of Benoit and Hayford. The complete least squares analysis is presented in integer form (i.e., with a common division) for the most widely used designs; and for the others, the standard deviations are given for various weight combinations when used as an ascending or as a descending series. Designs for sets of nominally equal objects, the 2 2 ... 1 1 ... series, the binary sequences, the 5 2 2 1 1 series, and the 5 3 2 1 1 and some miscellaneous series are given.