NASA-HDBK-8739.19-4 Estimation and Evaluation of Measurement Decision Risk. NASA Measurement Quality Assurance Handbook - ANNEX 4

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This Technical Handbook approved by NASA 07-13-2010. 227 p. This document provides guidelines for computing metrics by which conformance testing for test and calibration processes can be evaluated. Chief among these metrics are measurement decision risks. These include the risk of incorrectly accepting a nonconforming equipment attribute and the risk of incorrectly rejecting a conforming attribute. The former is called False Accept Risk and the latter is termed False Reject Risk. A principal objective of this Annex is to accumulate and focus the body of knowledge of measurement decision risk to provide uniform guidance in the application of this knowledge to estimate and manage such risk, particularly as it relates to NASA tests and calibrations.