What exactly is fitness for purpose in analytical measurement?

Analyst

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-278

  Thompson, Michael ^a   Fearn, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fitness for purpose; Loss functions; Quality; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

EID: 0030003568     PISSN: 00032654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/an9962100275     Document Type: Article

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