Franco Pavese

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What do you think that is the main reason for performance degradation with time of a house electrical water boiler?

I noticed that this is a very good test for understanding people capability to correctly building up an energetic budget. For that reason I will not reply immediately to each answer. You are...

03 March 2018 1,075 0 View

Should scientific Journals “for practitioners” reject submissions of articles on basic scientific questions?

I am more and more experiencing the case of Journals, who declare themselves oriented toward “practitioners”, which reject submissions on current general problems in scientific conduct or general...

06 June 2016 265 1 View

How can best model (partial) ignorance in the probabilistic frame?

There are many instances in both the frequentist and the Bayesian frames where one must express the limited, or almost vanishing, information available by means of a probability distribution,...

08 August 2014 2,311 22 View

Which are in your opinion the basic characteristics and applications of the so-called “least squares adjustment” (LSA)?

The applications of the LSA for adjusting values are very wide. My interest is limited here to the field of quantitative measurements and for two peculiar fields of high-accuracy measurements,...

02 February 2014 4,578 1 View

How to formalise uncertain numbers?

All measurements are uncertain, so in experimental science one should always specify the uncertainty, u, attached to the measured value, y. There are at least two mainstream ways to do it: (1) y...

12 December 2013 3,187 29 View