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Beamex CENTRiCAL calibration bench

Coverage factor

A numerical factor used as a multiplier of the combined standard uncertainty in order to obtain an expanded uncertainty. (GUM, 2.3.6) The coverage factor is identified by the symbol k. It is usually given the value 2, which approximately corresponds to a probability of 95 percent for degrees of freedom > 10’.

Calibration uncertainty