文档介绍：Measurement Errors
and Uncertainties
Third Edition
Semyon G. Rabinovich
Measurement Errors
and Uncertainties
Theory and Practice
Third Edition
Semyon G. Rabinovich
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Second edition translated by M. E. Alferieff.
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Preface
The major objective of this book is to give methods for estimating errors and
uncertainties of real measurements: measurements that are performed in industry,
commerce, and experimental research.
This book is needed because the existing theory of measurement errors was
historically developed as an abstract mathematical discipline. As a result, this
theory allows estimation of uncertainties of some ideal measurements only and is
not applicable to most practical cases. In particular, it is not applicable to single
measurements. This situation did not bother mathematicians, whereas engineers,
not being bold enough to assert that the mathematical th