Inter-laboratory, time, and fitness-for-purpose aspects of effective validation

Analytica Chimica Acta

Volumn 391, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-171

  Van Der Voet, Hilko ^a   Van Rhijn, J A ^a   Van De Wiel, Henk J ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

In house validation; Internal quality control; Measurement uncertainty; Method performance study; Proficiency testing; Validation; Variance components model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033040977     PISSN: 00032670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2670(99)00109-9     Document Type: Article

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