Functions of Measurement
Collection, Calculation, Comparison
“It is by the art of statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.”
– Florence Nightingale1 (1820 – 1910)
Purpose
This chapter describes the high-level process of taking the in-line measurements in terms of a set of functions common to many of the Data Quality Assessment Framework measurement types. Measurement types (generic patterns for taking specific measurements) begin with the collection of raw measurement data. They process that data through calculations that make the measurements comprehensible and through comparisons that ...
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