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Learning objectives
– to know what a measurand is and that it is subjected to a
probability distribution
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– to know the difference between an expectation value and the
corresponding estimate in statistics
– to know how GUM defines uncertainty
– to be familiar with the formalism of combined uncertainties
– to know the difference between type A and type B evaluation of
uncertainties
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