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Agilent - Uncertainty For Beginners
Agilent - Uncertainty For Beginners
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Metrology Forum : Basics Uncertainty & Confidence in Measurements An Introduction for Beginners
This is one of the most challenging aspects of calibration -- but are we sure??? If you are also uncertain (or lack confidence!) about some of the special language used in metrology, you may wish to review our terminology guide before continuing with this more detailed explanation. Terminology Guide But before we scare ourselves with the mathematics involved, let's consider the fundamental questions... who cares about uncertainty and why?
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Test Limit = Specification - Uncertainty This provides attractive minimal risk to the consumer, for instance 0.02% at 4:1 and only 0.03% at 2:1, but significant producer risk of 10% at 4:1 (33% at 2:1). The economic impact to the supplier (and inevitably the customer) may therefore outweigh the benefit of this practice. Opponents argue that such a conservative approach is unnecessarily pessimistic and is inconsistent with the established statistical basis for error (uncertainty) propagation. To explain, the specification will contribute to the user's uncertainty budget by quadratic summation and, therefore, the setting of the acceptance limit by simple arithmetic is inappropriate. The calculation should be a quadratic difference:Test Limit = Squareroot [Spec - Uncertainty ] This provides a fairly constant chance of under 0.7% of false acceptance for TARs from 4:1 to 1.5:1 although the chance of incorrect rejection is 2% at 4:1 rising to 8.2% at 2:1. This latter method is useful because of its simplicity in application, generally acceptable consumer-risk and commercial viability. It's argued that a statement on a calibration certificate, such as follows, could succinctly address the uncertainty and measurement adequacy criteria of standards such as ISO9001 and ANSI-Z540. "Our calibration procedures are designed to provide a measurement uncertainty of less than a quarter of the specification of the unit-under-test. In these conditions and at 95% confidence level for specification and uncertainty, the chance of incorrect declaration of conformance to specification is 0.8%. Where the objective cannot be achieved, tightened test limits are used to maintain equivalent confidence in the product's compliance to specification."
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