Harmonisation of proficiency testing schemes

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 9, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 657-661

  Van Der Veen, Adriaan M H ^a   Hafkenscheid, Theo L ^a  

^a Nederlands Meetinstituut NMi   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Harmonisation; Proficiency testing; Standardisation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCUMENTATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HYGIENE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABORATORY; LANGUAGE; LAW; MEASUREMENT; ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 8644289172     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-004-0807-0     Document Type: Review

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14. Van der Veen AMH, Cox MG (2003) Degrees of equivalence across key comparisons in gas analysis. Metrologia 40:18-23
15. Van der Veen AMH, Cox MG (2003) Error analysis in the evaluation of measurement uncertainty. Metrologia 40:42-50