Correlation and regression are different, but not mutually exclusive, techniques. Roughly,
regression is used for prediction (which does not extrapolate beyond the data used in the …

Context Scientific software plays an important role in critical decision making, for example
making weather predictions based on climate models, and computation of evidence for …

Surface metrology employs various measurement techniques, among which there has been
an increase of noteworthy research into non-contact optical and contact stylus methods …

This work shortly describes the main steps involved in the design and development of the
software package Quantu, created to conduct k 0-standardized NAA. The package …

This guide provides best practice in the evaluation of uncertainty within metrology, and in the
support to this topic given by a treatment that is probabilistic. It is motivated by two principle …

Software Engineering for Science provides an in-depth collection of peer-reviewed chapters
that describe experiences with applying software engineering practices to the development …

Scientific and engineering research is heavily dependent on effective development and use
of software artifacts. Many of these artifacts are produced by the scientists themselves, rather …

The purpose of the previous, this, and subsequent articles in the series is to deal with the
fitting of a straight line to experimental data in those cases in which replicate observations …

Many fields of science rely on software systems to answer different research questions. For
valid results researchers need to trust the results scientific software produces, and …

Reference software for the evaluation of a set of areal surface texture parameters is
described, focusing on the definitions of the parameters and giving details of the numerical …