Dose 2016

2 nd RECAP

5.2

(1) When reporting the result of a measurement, it is obligatory that a quantitative information of the quality of the result must be given. It is recommended to use the uncertainty of a measurement for that. (2) The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a “Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement” in order to ensure that the method for evaluating and expressing uncertainty is uniform all over the world . (3) According to this guide, the term "error of a measurement" should be generally avoided and substituted by the term "uncertainty of a measurement" of a result.

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