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An Outline of Supplement 1 to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement on Numerical Methods for the Propagation of Distributions

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Supplement 1 to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), concerned with numerical methods for the propagation of distributions, embodies a generalization of the uncertainty framework of the GUM. This paper presents a number of aspects of that supplement.

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Published in Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 4, pp. 17– 24, April, 2005.

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Cox, M., Harris, P. An Outline of Supplement 1 to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement on Numerical Methods for the Propagation of Distributions. Meas Tech 48, 336–345 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-005-0146-5

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