uncertaintyBudget: Generic function for uncertainty budget object

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Generic function for uncertainty budget object

Description

Generic function for creating an uncertainty budget object

Usage

uncertaintyBudget(x, ...)

Arguments

x	a list with the vector entries name, label, mean, u(uncertainty), distribution and dof, one for each quantity.
...	additional parameters

Details

uncertaintyBudget is a generic function (under S3 protocol) for searching the default method.

Value

An uncertainty budget object with attributes:

name the name of each input quantity

mean the mean value of each input quantity

u the uncertainty of each input quantity

unit the unit of each input quantity

dof the degrees of freedom of each input quantity

label the label of each input quantity

distribution the distribution of each input quantity, valid values are (normal, unif, t, chisq, f, triangle, binomial, bernoulli, beta, gamma)

cor the correlation matrix among the input quantities

Note

none

Author(s)

Hugo Gasca-Aragon

Maintainer: Hugo Gasca-Aragon <[e-mail]>

References

JCGM 200:2012. International vocabulary of metrology—Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM)

JCGM 100:2008. Guide to the expression of uncertainty of measurement

JCGM 100:2005. Supplement 1 Propagation of distributions usign a Monte Carlo method

EURACHEM/CITAC Guide CG 4. Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical Measurement

Becker, R.A., Chambers, J.M. and Wilks, A.R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

See Also

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