Year: 1963
Type: article
Abstract: Calibration of ins trumen ts and standards is a refined form of measurement. Meas ur eme nt-of some property of a thing is an operation t hat yields as an end res ult a number t hat indicates how much. of the proper ty t he t hing has. Measuremen t is ordinarily a repeatable oper atIOn, so t hat It IS appropJ'latc to r egard m eas urement a s a production process, t he "product" bein g t he numbers, i .e ., t he measurements, t hat it y ields; a nd to apply to measuremen t processes in t he la borator y the con ce p ts a nd techniques of statistical process control t hat h ave prove d so useful in the quality con trol of indu st ri al production.
Author: Churchill Eisenhart
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2146192883