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					                17<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> International Congress of Metrology
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1051/metrology/20150012006">
					https://doi.org/10.1051/metrology/20150012006
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				21 September 2015
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## Propagation automatique des incertitudes : application aux techniques d’auto-étalonnage des analyseurs de réseau vectoriels

Djamel Allal1a, Blair Hall2, Patricia Vincent1, Alexis Litwin1 et François Ziadé1

1 Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais LNE, France 2 Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand.

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Abstract

Some important vector network analyser (VNA) calibration procedures, such as thru-reflect-line (TRL), are not amenable to propagation of measurement uncertainty by conventional methods, because the equations involved do not explicitly refer to estimates of calibration standards used. However, the sensitivity of calibration constants to those estimates can be found by relating changes in standard values to changes in VNA readings. This is easily implemented with new algorithmic methods of uncertainty propagation.

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