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Title: Statistics And Metrology: Rich Interplay Of Ideas
Author: Alan E. Scrivner
Source: 2010 Measurement Science Conference
Year Published: 2010
Abstract: Modern metrology and the development of measurement standards was given its birth out of the French Revolution with the creation of the metric system and the beginning, of mass production using interchangeable parts. At about the same time, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was unwittingly giving birth to modern statistics by investigating how to obtain estimates of the orbital parameters of heavenly bodies on the basis of a set of observations that included errors. Metrology, the development of measurement standards, and statistics have been inseparable and ideas from one field often influenced the other. In this paper we explore this rich interplay of ideas.

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