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Propagation of Uncertainty - Degrees of freedom for pooled uncertainty #59

Open dwsideriusNIST opened 5 years ago

dwsideriusNIST commented 5 years ago

A small revision to the paper could be add a paragraph that describes how to estimate the degrees of freedom for the pooled uncertainty from the source measurements (Welch–Satterthwaite equation), which facilitates computation of confidence intervals for derived quantities.