Dealing with Uncertainties A Guide to Error Analysis /

Dealing with Uncertainties is an innovative monograph that lays special emphasis on the deductive approach to uncertainties and on the shape of uncertainty distributions. This perspective has the potential for dealing with the uncertainty of a single data point and with sets of data that have differ...

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Main Author: Drosg, Manfred. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01384-3
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505 0 # |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Basics on Data -- 3. Basics on Uncertainties -- 4. Radioactive Decay, a Model for Random Events -- 5. Frequency and Probability Distributions -- 6. Deductive Approach to the Uncertainty -- 7. Correlation -- 8. Dealing with Internal Uncertainties -- 9. Presentation and Estimation of Uncertainties -- 10. Feedback of Uncertainties on experiment Design -- Solutions. 
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