Dose 2016

RECAP

5.2

(1) The term measurand denotes a well defined physical quantity to be

measured.

(2) The value of a measurand is a stochastic quantity subjected to a

probability distribution .

(3) If this probability distribution is known, then the best estimate of the

measurand is the expectation value of the measurand.

(4) The corresponding standard uncertainty is the positive square root of

the variance of the probability distribution.

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