Regulation - From an industry perspective or relationships between detection limits, quantitation limits, and significant digits

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-80

  Coleman, David ^a   Auses, Jay ^a   Grams, Nancy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Calibration; Detection; False negative; False positive; Least squares; Measurement error; Method detection limit; Practical quantitation limit; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0031005367     PISSN: 01697439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7439(97)00026-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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