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An Introduction to Uncertainty in Measurement: Using the GUM (Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement) Reviews

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Summary: Highly recommended book for the application of GUM
Comment: The calculation of uncertainty is an important part of my research and I obtained a copy of the ISO Guide to the Measurement of Uncertainty to help me with my calculations. However, I found the ISO publication to be difficult to follow. Although the terms in the ISO publication are defined in the appendices, I still had difficulty applying it direction to my research.

Fortunately, I found this book, An Introduction to Uncertainty in Measurement: Using the GUM in my university library and it has been a tremendous help. The authors do a good job at walking the reader through the calculations needed for GUM and at providing examples. I found the book easy to read and easy to understand. There are several examples of applying GUM to measurements at the back of the book. Once I read this book, I went back and reread the ISO publication and this time, I found that I could understand how to apply it correctly.

I found this book to be very good, but it did lack a few things. The authors tend to repeat themselves in different chapters and I think that the book could have been better organized. Also, correlated sources of uncertainty are mentioned, but examples of how to address correlated sources are not provided in the book. Lastly, the examples which are given in the book are similar in nature and I would have preferred to see a wider range of examples given.

Overall, I strongly recommend this book if you are using GUM. However, I would like to see future editions address the organization of the book and the examples which are given.

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