Quality control of uranium concentration measurements

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-123

  Chakrabarty, Aditi ^a   Mohapatra, S ^a   Tripathi, R M ^a   Puranik, V D ^a   Kushwaha, H S ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Control charts; Distribution fitting; Outliers; Quality control

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149124500     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-009-0550-7     Document Type: Article

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