A Distribution-Independent Bound on the Level of Confidence in the Result of a Measurement

Abstract

The Bienayme-Chebyshev Inequality provides a quantitative bound on the level of confidence of a measurement with known combined standard uncertainty and assumed coverage factor. The result is independent of the detailed nature of the probability distribution that characterizes knowledge of the measurand.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 10, 1997
Accession Number
ADA530643

Entities

People

  • W. T. Estler

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Inequalities
  • Information Operations
  • Intervals
  • Measurement
  • Numbers
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Quality Control
  • Square Roots
  • Standards
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.
  • Theoretical Analysis.