Publications – white papers and research notes

Publications

Publications

White papers, research notes and articles

By Erik van der Werff, on measurement uncertainty, statistics and gas analysis.

21 October 2026 · Research note

Structured heteroscedasticity in errors-in-variables calibration

A proposal for errors-in-variables calibration: describe the response variance by one variance function estimated from all replicates together, and keep the reference uncertainties as given. Not peer reviewed.

PDF, 19 pages

12 October 2026 · White paper

Not rejected is not proven

Why the absence of evidence against a result is not evidence for it, and what that means for conformity decisions, method comparison, calibration and analyser evaluation in gas analysis.

PDF, 4 pages

23 May 2025 · Article

Bayesian statistics and AI

How they transform analytical measurements: why measurement uncertainty is more than a single number, and why correlated errors matter. First published on qualimetric.eu.

Read online · PDF, 3 pages

22 May 2025 · Article

Rethinking measurement

Smarter, deeper, better: how multi-sensor data, Bayesian statistics and affordable computing change the way we measure, monitor and decide. First published on qualimetric.eu.

PDF, 2 pages