International Society of Automation- Measurement Uncertainty

R.H. Dieck

• 20 april 2026
• 9781941546949

Samenvatting:

An entire course, as well as an excellent desk reference, this edition presents students and professionals in engineering and science with a comprehensive tutorial of measurement uncertainty methods in a logically categorized and easy to use format.



An entire course, as well as an excellent desk reference, this edition presents students and professionals in engineering and science with a comprehensive tutorial of measurement uncertainty methods in a logically categorized and easy to use format.

What is new?

• More detailed examples of uncertainty computation
• Discussion of new uncertainty technologies in U.S. and international standards, and their strengths and weaknesses
• A discussion of the rationale for the choice of the uncertainty model, ISO or ASME
• An abbreviated approach to uncertainty estimation
• An improved accumulation of the important equations in uncertainty analysis

• Basics of the measurement uncertainty model
• Nonsymmetrical, systematic standard uncertainties
• Random standard uncertainties; the use of correlation
• Curve-fitting problems
• Probability plotting
• Combining results from different test methods
• Calibration errors
• Uncertainty propagation for both independent and dependent error sources