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Bibliography
| Sources |
The
information on evaluating and expressing measurement uncertainty within this
reference is adapted from NIST Technical Note 1297. The publication TN 1297,
prepared by B.N. Taylor and C.E. Kuyatt and entitled Guidelines
for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results,
is in turn based on the comprehensive International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) publication, Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in
Measurement. Users may access TN 1297 online in a
pdf version or in an
html version, or order it at no
charge for postal delivery. They may also
purchase the ISO Guide. |
| Background |
Background
information on the development of the ISO Guide, its worldwide adoption,
NIST TN 1297, and the NIST policy on expressing measurement uncertainty is
given in the section International and U.S.
perspectives on measurement uncertainty. |
| Related information |
Note also that a companion document to the ISO
Guide, or GUM,
was prepared by ISO/TAG 4/WG 1 and published in 1993 by ISO in the
name of the same seven international organizations in whose name the GUM was
published. It is entitled International Vocabulary of Basic and General
Terms in Metrology, or VIM, and gives the definitions of many important
terms relevant to the field of measurement (a few of these definitions are
reprinted in the GUM and in TN 1297). Like the GUM, the VIM
may be purchased. |
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