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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Fuzzy Systems Volume 2012, Article ID 783843, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/783843 Research Article Fuzzy Treatment of Candidate Outliers in Measurements Giampaolo E. D’Errico and Nadir Murru Division of Mechanics, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Giampaolo E. D’Errico, g.derrico@inrim.it Received 29 August 2011; Revised 16 January 2012; Accepted 2 February 2012 Academic Editor: Kemal Kilic Copyright © 2012 G. E. D’Errico and N. Murru. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Robustness against the possible occurrence of outlying observations is critical to the performance of a measurement process. Open questions relevant to statistical testing for candidate outliers are reviewed. A novel fuzzy logic approach is developed and exemplified in a metrology context. A simulation procedure is presented and discussed by comparing fuzzy versus probabilistic models. 1. Introduction any further outliers. Different tests, based on similar ideas and hypotheses, like in [9, 10], have been developed for the Measurement is intrinsically subject to uncertainty: accord- simultaneous detection of many outliers. ing to the guide [ 1] “a measurement has imperfections that Using a Bayesian approach, some theoretical problems give rise to an error in the measurement result.” Thus, an for the above tests are