Accounting for the Uncertainty in a Standard Value

This paper deals with the general topic of estimating biases, making bias corrections, and expressing the uncertainty in a result for which the bias correction may or may not have been applied. Earlier papers in this general topic area are [1] to [10]. This present paper includes the additional effect of the uncertainty in the value assigned the standard used to estimate the bias. The principle of maximum likelihood is used to provide the estimates of the parameters. The uncertainty in a reported result is expressed by the mean square error. : referenced,