Build on the foundations learnt in the ‘Fundamentals of MU’ course to deal with specific uncertainty contributors that should always be considered when building our budgets and advanced methods to use if the budget requires it.
| Week | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome and Orientation Course Project | How the course will be delivered |
| 1 | Preliminary Measurement Uncertainty | Applications in method validation and verification |
| 2 | Traceability | Calibrators, QC, reagent traceability and MU |
| 3 | Calibration | Calibration and uncertainty: Cause and remedy in equal measure? |
| Live tutorial session – Review of weeks 1, 2 & 3 | ||
| 4 | The Bottom up approach | Using the GUM for uncertainty in the medical laboratory? |
| 5 | Bias uncertainty | Bias, its detection, correction and associated uncertainty |
| Live tutorial session – Project review tutorial | ||
| 7 | Monte Carlo Methods | Propagation of distributions and associated uncertainty |
| 8 | MU Review | How and when to review MU What to do if it exceeds expectations |
| Live tutorial session – Review of weeks 7 & 8 |
