@article {Makarewicz:2012:0736-2501:770, title = "Nonlinear uncertainty of the long term average level calculated from short term average sound levels", journal = "Noise Control Engineering Journal", parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/ncej", publishercode ="ince", year = "2012", volume = "60", number = "6", publication date ="2012-11-01T00:00:00", pages = "770-774", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "0736-2501", url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/ncej/2012/00000060/00000006/art00011", doi = "doi:10.3397/1.3701047", keyword = "75.1, 56.1", author = "Makarewicz, Rufin and Galuszka, Michal", abstract = "Determining of the long-term average sound level, LAeqT, requires continuous noise measurement over a long time period. To decrease the cost of measurement, LAeqT is approximated by a few, m, short-term average sound levels, LAeq,t, so that mt \guillemotleft T. The linear and the nonlinear uncertainty of LAeq,T approximation is discussed. For a few measurements, m < 10, the nonlinear uncertainty is required.", }