Empirical versus modelling approaches to the estimation of measurement uncertainty caused by primary sampling

Analyst

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1231-1237

  Lyn, Jennifer A ^a   Ramsey, Michael H ^a   Damant, Andrew P ^b   Wood, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMPIRICISM; PISTACHIO; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 36348934504     PISSN: 00032654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b709539m     Document Type: Article

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