Example of Monte Carlo uncertainty assessment in the field of radionuclide metrology

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serval:BIB_A196C9C03D68
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Example of Monte Carlo uncertainty assessment in the field of radionuclide metrology
Journal
Metrologia
Author(s)
Cassette P., Bochud F., Keightley J.
ISSN
1681-7575 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0026-1394
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2015
Volume
52
Number
3
Pages
S42-S50
Language
english
Abstract
This chapter presents possible uses and examples of Monte Carlo methods for the evaluation of uncertainties in the field of radionuclide metrology. The method is already well documented in GUM supplement 1, but here we present a more restrictive approach, where the quantities of interest calculated by the Monte Carlo method are estimators of the expectation and standard deviation of the measurand, and the Monte Carlo method is used to propagate the uncertainties of the input parameters through the measurement model. This approach is illustrated by an example of the activity calibration of a 103Pd source by liquid scintillation counting and the calculation of a linear regression on experimental data points. An electronic supplement presents some algorithms which may be used to generate random numbers with various statistical distributions, for the implementation of this Monte Carlo calculation method.
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