Quantification of analytical recovery in particle and microorganism enumeration methods

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1705-1712

  Schmidt, Philip J ^a   Emelko, Monica B ^a   Reilly, Park M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROORGANISMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RECOVERY; SAMPLING;

ANALYTICAL ERRORS; CREDIBLE INTERVAL; ENUMERATION METHOD; EXPERIMENT DESIGN; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILITY INTERVALS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SAMPLE PROCESSING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROORGANISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PR INTERVAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING ERROR; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 77749295261     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902237f     Document Type: Article

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