Estimating the precision of serial dilutions and viable bacterial counts

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 207-214

  Hedges, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Serial dilutions; Variance; Viable counts

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CELL VIABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DILUTION; ERROR; LABORATORY; PIPETTE; SAMPLING; SUSPENSION;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037172926     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1605(02)00022-3     Document Type: Article

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4. An analysis of variance test for normality (complete samples)
5. EDF statistics for goodness of fit and some comparisons