Clemens Elster et al 2007 Metrologia 44 L31 doi:10.1088/0026-1394/44/3/N03
Clemens Elster1, Wolfgang Wöger2 and Maurice G Cox3
Show affiliationsThe relation between uncertainty evaluation according to the recent draft of GUM Supplement 1 and the application of Bayesian statistics including Bayes' theorem is considered. In the case of a Type A evaluation of uncertainty, repeated measurement indications are regarded as independently drawn from normal frequency distributions and, according to its suggestion, the numerical evaluation method of Supplement 1 is applied after having assigned scaled and shifted t-distributions to the corresponding input quantities. It will be shown that this approach is equivalent to a Bayesian analysis using Bayes' theorem with commonly used prior distributions.
02.50.-r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics
Issue 3 (June 2007)
Received 1 February 2007
Published 24 May 2007
Clemens Elster et al 2007 Metrologia 44 L31
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