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Search Publications by: Blaza Toman (Assoc)

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A Case Study of a Community Affected by the Witch and Guejito Fires: Report #2 – Evaluating the Effects of Hazard Mitigation Actions on Structure Ignitions

June 5, 2013
Author(s)
Alexander Maranghides, Derek McNamara, William Mell, Jason Trook, Blaza Toman
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a suite of research projects addressing risk reduction in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities. The NIST WUI Team was invited by CAL FIRE to collect post incident data from the California

Standard Reference Material 2366 for Measurement of Human Cytomegalovirus DNA

March 1, 2013
Author(s)
Ross J. Haynes, Margaret C. Kline, Blaza Toman, Calum Scott, Paul Wallace, John M. Butler, Marcia J. Holden
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of a number of human viruses that are ubiquitous in human populations, generally cause little illness upon infecting healthy individuals, but can cause life threatening disease in immune-compromised individuals. An important

Alternative Analyses of Measurements of the Planck Constant

July 5, 2012
Author(s)
Blaza Toman
We compare different methods for the adjustment of the Planck constant using recent, inconsistent data. First we discuss the popular Birge ratio method. By stating the underlying statistical model we critically assess and modify this method. We then

Quantifying Model Error

February 11, 2011
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Blaza Toman
A methodology is proposed for reporting the results of fire model validation studies that consist mainly of comparisons of model predictions and experimental measurements. The difference between the two is a combination of model error and experimental

Laboratory Effects Models for Interlaboratory Comparisons

June 16, 2009
Author(s)
Blaza Toman, Antonio M. Possolo
Statistical analysis of inter-laboratory comparisons (e.g. Key Comparisons, Supplemental Comparisons) is required to produce an estimate of the measurand called a reference value and further, measures of equivalence of the participating laboratories

Three Statistical Paradigms for the Assessment and Interpretation of Measurement Uncertainty

January 12, 2009
Author(s)
William F. Guthrie, Hung-Kung Liu, Andrew L. Rukhin, Blaza Toman, Chih-Ming Wang, Nien F. Zhang
The goals of this chapter are to present different approaches to uncertainty assessment from a statistical point of view and to relate them to the methods that are currently being used in metrology or are being developed within the metrology community. The

Model Based Uncertainty Analysis in Inter-Laboratory Studies

June 23, 2008
Author(s)
Blaza Toman, Antonio M. Possolo
Statistical analysis of key comparison and inter-laboratory experiments is required to produce an estimate of the measurand called a reference value and further, measures of equivalence of the participating laboratories. Methods of estimation of the

Assessment of measurement uncertainty via observation equations

December 3, 2007
Author(s)
Antonio M. Possolo, Blaza Toman
According to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, measurement uncertainty is assessed by computational propagation of error based on a measurement equation that expresses the measurand as a known function of input variables. However

Comments on 'Bayesian evaluation of comparison data' by Ignacio Lira

January 1, 2007
Author(s)
Raghu N. Kacker, Blaza Toman
A recent paper by Ignacio Lira in Metrologia 43 (2006) S231-S234 addresses a well-known problem in combining information from interlaboratory evaluations. Lira presents an expression, which he claims to be the kernel of a Bayesian posterior probability