Simplified version of the tomography problem can help to estimate the errors of indirect measurements

Vladik Kreinovich

doi:10.1117/12.323790

22 September 1998 Simplified version of the tomography problem can help to estimate the errors of indirect measurements

Vladik Kreinovich

Proceedings Volume 3459, Bayesian Inference for Inverse Problems; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323790
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In many real-life situations, it is very difficult or even impossible to directly measure the quantity y in which we are interested: e.g., we cannot directly measure a distance to a distant galaxy or the amount of oil in a given well. Since we cannot measure such quantities directly, we can measure them indirectly: by first measuring some relating quantities x₁,...,x_n, and then by using the known relation between x_i and y to reconstruct the value of the desired quantity y. In practice, it is often very important to estimate the error of the resulting indirect measurement. In this paper, we show that in a natural statistical setting, the problem of estimating the error of indirect measurement can be formulated as a simplified version of a tomography problem. In this paper, we use the ideas of invariance to find the optimal algorithm for solving this simplified tomography problem, and thus, for solving the statistical problem or error estimation for indirect measurements.

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Vladik Kreinovich "Simplified version of the tomography problem can help to estimate the errors of indirect measurements", Proc. SPIE 3459, Bayesian Inference for Inverse Problems, (22 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323790

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