The following terms are used by
electrical engineer
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
s in
statistical signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as sound, images, potential fields, seismic signals, altimetry processing, and scientific measurements. Signal ...
studies instead of typical statistician's terms.
In other engineering fields, particularly
mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...
, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical experiments.
Notes
References
# S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, .
# H. Coleman and W. G. Steele, Experimentation and uncertainty analysis for engineers, {{ISBN, 0-471-12146-0.
Detection theory
Statistical hypothesis testing