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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2005 113(2):127-128; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch491
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Editorial

What we know and what we do not know

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At the outset, it is probably worthwhile to explain the intended meaning of the title is that there are quantities amenable to measurement or calculation, while there are others that are substantially more difficult to determine or are perhaps not knowable at all. In any event, for the knowable or measurable quantities, there is an uncertainty that can and should be assigned to the reported value of the quantity. Having just spent the last several months with one copy of the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement(1) (GUM) on my desk and another in my study . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph C. McDonald, Editor-in-Chief


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