Error Propagation

Treatise on Geochemistry: Second Edition

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-42

  Zou, Haibo ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error propagation; Limit of detection (LOD); Probability distributions; Standard deviation; Standard error

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; ERROR PROPAGATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTIFICATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD ERRORS;

RANDOM ERRORS;

EID: 84901331488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.01402-9     Document Type: Chapter

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