A methodology for assessing sample representativeness

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-75

  Ramsey, Charles A ^a   Hewitt, Alan D ^b  

^a EnviroStat Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality objectives; Quality control; Representativeness; Sample plan design

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744593097     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920590913877     Document Type: Article

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