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ISO/IEC GUIDE 98-4

Uncertainty of measurement - Part 4: Role of measurement uncertainty in conformity assessment

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Organization: ISO
Publication Date: 27 January 2012
Status: active
Page Count: 62
ICS Code (Metrology and measurement in general): 17.020
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This document provides guidance and procedures for assessing the conformity of an item (entity, object or system) with specified requirements. The item might be, for example, a gauge block, a grocery scale or a blood sample. The procedures can be applied where the following conditions exist:

- the item is distinguished by a single scalar quantity (see 3.2.1) (a measurable property) defined to a level of detail sufficient to be reasonably represented by an essentially unique true value;

NOTE The GUM provides a rationale for not using the term `true', but it will be used in this document when there is otherwise a possibility of ambiguity or confusion.

- an interval of permissible values of the property is specified by one or two tolerance limits;

- the property can be measured and the measurement result (see 3.2.5) expressed in a manner consistent with the principles of the GUM, so that knowledge of the value of the property can be reasonably described by (a) a probability density function (see 3.1.3) (PDF), (b) a distribution function (see 3.1.2), (c) numerical approximations to such functions, or (d) a best estimate, together with a coverage interval and an associated coverage probability.

The procedures developed in this document can be used to realize an interval, called an acceptance interval, of permissible measured values of the property of interest. Acceptance limits can be chosen so as to balance the risks associated with accepting non-conforming items (consumer's risk) or rejecting conforming items (producer's risk).

Two types of conformity assessment problems are addressed. The first is the setting of acceptance limits that will assure that a desired conformance probability for a single measured item is achieved. The second is the setting of acceptance limits to assure an acceptable level of confidence on average as a number of (nominally identical) items are measured. Guidance is given for their solution.

This document contains examples to illustrate the guidance provided. The concepts presented can be extended to more general conformity assessment problems based on measurements of a set of scalar measurands. Documents such as references [19, 13] cover sector-specific aspects of conformity assessment.

The audience of this document includes quality managers, members of standards development organizations, accreditation authorities and the staffs of testing and measuring laboratories, inspection bodies, certification bodies, regulatory agencies, academics and researchers.

Document History

ISO/IEC GUIDE 98-4
January 27, 2012
Uncertainty of measurement - Part 4: Role of measurement uncertainty in conformity assessment
This document provides guidance and procedures for assessing the conformity of an item (entity, object or system) with specified requirements. The item might be, for example, a gauge block, a grocery...

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