EMUE-D2-5-TraceabilityFromConformity

Measurement traceability is commonly obtained from calibration measurements that provide a result in terms of a single value and its associated uncertainty. However, there are circumstances where instead, the result may consist of a range of possible values. Such circumstances might arise when a result is provided in the form of the output from a conformity decision process, for example as a conformity statement in which a range of acceptable values rather than a specific value is reported.

In terms of metrological traceability this style of result provides less information than a specific value, but it may be sufficient to obtain an acceptable target measurement uncertainty for a given application. The standard ISO/IEC 17025 acknowledges this in informative annex A. This example describes how such information might be used to propagate traceability.

Files contained in the dataset are:

• “EMUE 1.2.5 (Version 5139).zip”: Zip file containing tex, bib and image files
• “A125.bib”: Bibliography file
• “EMUE_A1.2.5.tex”: LaTeX file
• “EMUE_1_2_5.pdf”: Report - GUM-LPU uncertainty evaluation - importing measurement traceability from a conformity statement
• “Figure_1_2.m”, “Figure_3.m”: MATLAB scripts used to calculate data for section 3.7