Uncertainty quantification

News and Updates

Making the DNA Melt Curve More Accurate

August 18, 2020

DNA is not only the blueprint of life; it has become the backbone for making tiny structures that can be inserted into the human body to diagnose and treat

Divide and Conquer: New Algorithm Examines Crime-Scene Bullets Segment by Segment

March 26, 2020

On the morning of March 22, 1915, residents of the small town of West Shelby, New York, awoke to a horrific scene. A woman clad only in a bloodied nightgown lay

Projects and Programs

Autonomous Materials Science

We use autonomous experimentation (the merger of automated synthesis, characterization, AI-driven decision-making) to elucidate the role of composition

Additive Manufacturing Part Qualification

Critical parts for defense, aerospace, and medical applications must be formally qualified prior to use. Currently, extensive empirical testing consisting of

Data Driven Decision Support for Additive Manufacturing

“Digital disruption is a change in industry triggered by advances in information and communications technology. During the next few years, the technologies

Consistency Analysis and Uncertainty in ‘omic Data

As ‘omics moves into industrial and commercial applications, there is a need for quality and process control to ensure safety and efficacy of products and

Publications

Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of DNA Fluorescence Melt Data: Applications of Affine Transformations

October 15, 2020

Author(s)

Paul N. Patrone, Anthony J. Kearsley, Jacob M. Majikes, James A. Liddle

Estimating Instrument Performance: with Confidence Intervals and Confidence Bounds

September 29, 2020

Author(s)

John Lu

Instrument performance is evaluated through performing a set of tests, and the test results determine whether the instrument meets or fails the standard

On The Quotient of Centralized and Non-Centralized Complex Gaussian Random Variables

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Dazhen Gu

A detailed investigation of the quotient of two independent complex random variables is presented. The numerator has a zero mean, and the denominator has a non

Role of Uncertainty in the Durability of Composite Material Systems

August 17, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben

This paper is a chapter invited by the editor of a book to be published by Elsevier in 2020. The title of the book is "Durability of Composite Systems," and the

Tools and Instruments

Reference Ballistic Chronograph

The NIST-developed reference ballistic chronograph (RBC) provides repeatable measurements of the speed of a bullet that will impact a test article, such as