Micronutrients measurement quality assurance program: Helping participants use interlaboratory comparison exercise results to improve their long term measurement performance

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1870-1878

  Duewer, David L ^a   Kline, Margaret C ^a   Sharpless, Katherine E ^a   Brown Thomas, Jeanice ^a   Gary, Kenneth T ^a   Sowell, Anne L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DILUTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY CONTROL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICRONUTRIENTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0033135646     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac981074k     Document Type: Article

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