Generalized expressions of second and third order for the evaluation of standard measurement uncertainty |
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Authors: | M.A.F. Martins,R. Requiã o R.A. Kalid |
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Affiliation: | Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Industrial, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Aristides Novis, 02, Federação, 40210-630 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
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Abstract: | The Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) requires the use of a first-order Taylor series expansion for propagating uncertainties. However, when the measurement function is strongly non-linear the use of this linear approximation may be inadequate and therefore higher order terms from the Taylor series cannot be neglected. The present paper aims to derive generalized expressions of second and third order for the evaluation of the estimate of a measurand and its associated standard uncertainty. A case study is given to illustrate an application of the proposed methods and the results obtained with the GUM method are compared to the corresponding ones when applying the method proposed in GUM Supplement 1. |
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Keywords: | Measurement uncertainty Higher order uncertainties Propagation of uncertainties Monte Carlo method Non-linear models |
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