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A Worked Example
Suppose that we determined the amount of uranium contents in 14 stream water samples by a well-established laboratory method and a newly-developed hand-held rapid field method…..
A linear regression approach to bias between methods – Part II
Linear regression is used to establish a relationship between two variables. In analytical chemistry, linear regression is commonly used in the construction of calibration curve for analytical instruments in, for example, gas and liquid chromatographic and many other spectrophotometric analyses….
A linear regression approach to bias between methods – Part I
Measurement uncertainty has two main contributors, namely sampling uncertainty and analytical uncertainty, but most laboratory analysts tend to equate analytical uncertainty as its measurement uncertainty based on the sample received. This may be true when the target (population) lot sampled is homogeneous where every part of the target have an equal chance of being incorporated in the sample…..
Nearly all analysis requires the taking of a sample, a procedure which itself introduces uncertainty into the final test result. Hence a measurement uncertainty should cover both the uncertainties of sampling and analysis….
