To provide the reader with an introduction to the concepts and techniques used for determining the quality of a measurement system. Special emphasis is placed on the statistical properties of such systems.
The contents of this module have been provided by Dr. Edgardo J. Escalante (escalante@itesm.mx) from Dept. Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico.
Reproducibility is defined as the variation among the average measurements performed by one operator using the same units and the same measurement instrument