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No measurement is perfect!

non-representative sampling

Personal bias

Finite resolution

etc….

Changes in influence quantities can affect the quality of measurements

GUM

5.2

In principle, the quantity to be measured

cannot be

completely

described without an

infinite

amount of

information.

How to know the “true value”?

ICRU 76

IAEA TRS398

Introduces concept of

uncertainty