The relationship between purely stochastic sampling error and the number of technical replicates used to estimate concentration at an extreme dilution

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 398, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 895-903

  Irwin, Peter L ^a   Nguyen, Ly Huong T ^a   Chen, Chin Yi ^a  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical data; MPN; Poisson distribution; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DATA; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL SYSTEMS; DETECTION METHODS; DNA MOLECULES; EMPIRICAL MEASURE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; MPN; PATHOGEN DETECTION; RANDOM SAMPLING; SAMPLE MEANS; SAMPLING ERROR; SAMPLING ERRORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING; SUB-SAMPLES; SURFACE AREA;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM ERRORS; SAMPLING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELECTION BIAS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

EID: 77957879859     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-010-3967-2     Document Type: Article

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