A Concept of Measurement Process-Result Duality in the Context of Measurement Uncertainty

Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of duality when it comes to the measurement process and measurement result. This concept simplifies the existing framework significantly by clearly specifying the existing elements of the measurement process, and how they affect the uncertainty of the measurement result. Since the measurement result and its corresponding uncertainty are a product of the non-excluded errors in the measurement process, it reasonably follows that the measurement result cannot be an element of the process. This notion is useful for retrieving and analyzing the sources of uncertainty as components of combined uncertainty (and respectively expanded uncertainty) in the presentation of the final result.