How many experiments do you need at the same condition ?
ver 1.2 (revise the URL for ENG PDF, 22 Jun 2021)
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Answer 20 questions after reading the below URL
“A Beginner’s Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement” (ENG ver.)
You can download the same PDF file at any URLs
https://www.isobudgets.com/pdf/documents/04_NPL_MGPG_No11.pdf
https://www.npl.co.uk/gpgs/corrosion-control-checklist
http://www.demarcheiso17025.com/private/A%20Beginner%92s%20Guide%20to%20Uncertainty%20of%20Measurement%20.pdf
「不確かさの入門ガイド」日本語版
https://www.nite.go.jp/data/000050641.pdf
#1 What is uncertainty of measurement? (pick up a sentence)
#2 What is error? (pick up a sentence)
#3 What is uncertainly? (pick up a sentence)
#4 Can you measure the true value? Please answer with your opinion & reason, referring with “Annex A”.
#5 Please explain “Measure thrice, cut once” (pick up a sentence)
#6 How many readings should you average? (pick up some sentences, considering with “diminishing returns”)
#7 What the spread tells us? (pick up a sentence)
#8 The usual way to quantify spread is standard deviation. Sometimes the quantification is enough by another simple way. What is it? (pick up a sentence)
#9 What is the standard deviation? (pick up sentence from “Annex A”)
#10 How many readings do you need to find an estimated standard deviation? (pick up sentences)
#11 Where do errors and uncertainties come from? (pick up all the sentences about the seven origins.)
#12 Please explain the “random” or “systematic” uncertainty in any measurement. (pick up all the sentences)
#13 Statistical analysis is not uncertainty analysis. Please explain the reason by picking up sentences from “5.3 What is not a measurement uncertainty?”
#14 No need to your answer. If you learn more, let’s read “6.1, 6.2, and 9.1”
#15 Question about “Measure thrice, cut once” again. Please explain what will be happened when you make two or three measurements. (pick up sentences)
#16 Question again. How many readings should you average?
#17 Question again. How many readings do you need if you want to find an estimated standard deviation?
#18 Question again. Please pick up the seven origins of errors and uncertainties
#19 For your research, which is better choice of “reducing the errors and uncertainties” or “calculation the average or standard deviation”? Please your opinion after reading of “Abstract” & Chapter 11″.
#20 Final question. How many readings will you have in your experiments at the same condition? Please three answers. (TIP: #15-17)
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