"Evaluating Measurement Accuracy, 2nd Edition" is intended for those who
are concerned with measurements in any field of science or technology.
It reflects the latest developments in metrology and offers new results,
but is designed to be accessible to readers at different levels:
scientists who advance the field of metrology, engineers and
experimental scientists who use measurements as tool in their
professions, students and graduate students in natural sciences and
engineering, and, in parts describing practical recommendations,
technicians performing mass measurements in industry, quality control,
and trade. This book presents material from the practical perspective
and offers solutions and recommendations for problems that arise in
conducting real-life measurements.
This new edition adds a method for estimating accuracy of indirect
measurements with independent arguments, whose development Dr.
Rabinovich was able to complete very recently. This method, which is
called the Method of Enumeration, produces estimates that are no longer
approximate, similar to the way the method of reduction described in the
first edition removed approximation in estimating uncertainty of
indirect measurements with dependent arguments. The method of
enumeration completes addressing the range of problems whose solutions
signify the emergence of the new theory of accuracy of measurements. A
new method is added for building a composition of histograms, and this
method forms a theoretical basis for the method of
enumeration.Additionally, as a companion to this book, a concise
practical guide that assembles simple step-by-step procedures for
typical tasks the practitioners are likely to encounter in measurement
accuracy estimation is available at SpringerLink.
