gum_expanded — SPC uncertainty op

• Data kinds: table → table

• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.gum_expanded(table, u='u', sensitivity='sensitivity', dof='dof', level=0.95, correlation=None, estimate=None, lower_bound=None, upper_bound=None) (to call the implementation directly, import spc; spc.gum_expanded(table, u='u', sensitivity='sensitivity', dof='dof', level=0.95, correlation=None, estimate=None, lower_bound=None, upper_bound=None); from the registry, opsspc.get("gum_expanded"))

Usage

Welch-Satterthwaite effective degrees of freedom, coverage factor k and expanded uncertainty U (table).

nu_eff = u_c^4 / sum_i (c_i u_i)^4 / nu_i U = k u_c, k = t_{p}(nu_eff)

★ There are 3 exact properties usable as a gate:

• With only 1 component, nu_eff == nu (exact).

• nu_eff >= min_i nu_i always holds. Proof: sum u_i^4/nu_i <= (1/nu_min) sum u_i^4 <= (1/nu_min)(sum u_i^2)^2. If the effective degrees of freedom fall below those of the smallest component, the computation is broken.

• If all degrees of freedom are infinite, k converges to the quantile of the normal distribution (1.959964 at 95 %).

For infinite degrees of freedom (known constants and the like) put numpy.inf.

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• poc_measurement_system_analysis — py -3.11 examples/poc_measurement_system_analysis.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept table as input)

msa_anova_table · msa_gauge_rr · msa_bias_linearity · msa_attribute_agreement · gum_standard_uncertainty · gum_propagate · gum_monte_carlo · gum_validate

Same category (uncertainty)

gum_standard_uncertainty · gum_propagate · gum_monte_carlo · gum_validate


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