Can the usual validation standard series for quantitative methods, ISO 5725, be also applied for qualitative methods?

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 533-537

  Uhlig, Steffen ^a   Niewöhner, Ludwig ^b   Gowik, Petra ^c  

^a quo data   (Germany)

^b Federal Criminal Police Office   (Germany)

^c Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety BVL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ISO 5725; Laboratory standard deviation; Probability of detection response curve; Qualitative methods; Quantitative methods; Repeatability standard deviation; Reproducibility standard deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355146960     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-011-0811-0     Document Type: Article

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