Objectives:
- The program aims to familiarize the participants with the concept of uncertainty and the different ways of estimating it and how to express it and what are the requirements of international standards in calculating uncertainty and how to comply with these requirements
- Explain the different methods of estimating uncertainty
- How to comply with the requirements of International Standard 17025
- Use of uncertainty in judgment and product conformity
People concerned:
- All test workers
- Laboratory Quality Managers
- Technical directors of laboratories
- Exam takers
- New recruits in laboratories
- Residents, technical and administrative auditors
Prerequisites:
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Content:
- Definitions and terms related to uncertainty
- Uncertainty requirements in international standards
- Defining error and uncertainty
- Introduction to the different methods used to calculate uncertainty
- Statistical methods used in calculating uncertainty
- Calculating the uncertainty of different measurement quantities and their effect on the measured quantity
- The role of uncertainty in achieving metrological attribution
- Uncertainty and quality assurance of results
- Use uncertainty to assess conformity
- Estimating the uncertainty of measurement and calibration laboratories