BS ISO 17123-1 - OPTICS AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS - FIELD PROCEDURES FOR TESTING GEODETIC AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS - PART 1: THEORY

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British Standards Institution

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
  3.1 General metrological terms
  3.2 Terms specific to this standard
  3.3 The term "uncertainty"
4 Evaluating uncertainty of measurement
  4.1 Type A evaluation of standard uncertainty
      4.1.1 General law of error propagation
      4.1.2 Least squares approach
      4.1.3 Special cases
  4.2 Type B evaluation of standard uncertainty
  4.3 Law of propagation of uncertainty and
      combined standard uncertainty
  4.4 Expanded uncertainty
5 Reporting uncertainty
6 Summarized concept of uncertainty evaluation
7 Statistical tests
  7.1 General
  7.2 Question a): Is the experimental standard
      deviation s smaller than or equal to
      a given value [sigma]?
  7.3 Question b): Do two samples belong to the
      same population
  7.4 Question c) [respectively Question d)]:
      Testing the significance of a parameter y[k]
Annex A (informative) - Probability distributions
Annex B (normative) - Chi[2] distribution, Fishers's
                      distribution, students distribution
Annex C (informative) - Examples
Annex D (normative) - Glossary of principle symbols

Committee	CPW/172/6
DocumentType	Draft
Pages	44
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Current

ISO/IEC Guide 98:1993	Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM)
ISO/TS 21749:2005	Measurement uncertainty for metrological applications — Repeated measurements and nested experiments
ISO/IEC Guide 99:2007	International vocabulary of metrology Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM)
ISO/TS 21748:2004	Guidance for the use of repeatability, reproducibility and trueness estimates in measurement uncertainty estimation