M J T Milton et al 2006 Metrologia 43 S291 doi:10.1088/0026-1394/43/4/S17
M J T Milton, P M Harris, I M Smith, A S Brown and B A Goody
Show affiliationsThe determination of a best-fit calibration curve that describes the response of a measuring system to the value of a standard is one of the most widely used procedures in metrology. The mathematical basis for a generalized least-squares solution to this problem is reviewed. Examples of the application of a software implementation of the method are presented to illustrate the treatment of calibration problems with different uncertainty structures for the calibration data, including correlated data. The examples concern the calibration of analysers to measure the composition of natural gas and the calibration of a gas flow dilutor.
02.70.Rr General statistical methods
Issue 4 (August 2006)
Received 6 February 2006
Published 4 August 2006
M J T Milton et al 2006 Metrologia 43 S291
E Orlandini et al 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 1535
M Nekipelov et al 2007 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34 627
R J Fries et al 2004 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 30 S223
Vitali Stsiapura et al 2006 Nanotechnology 17 581
W Edwards and Co. Ltd. 1949 J. Sci. Instrum. 26 129
G Azuelos et al 2005 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 1
E Grunbaum et al 1995 Semicond. Sci. Technol. 10 627
P Homolka and R Nowotny 2002 Phys. Med. Biol. 47 N47
E Petridou et al 2009 Phys. Educ. 44 589