A practitioner's approach to the assessment of the quality of sampling, sample preparation, and subsampling |
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Authors: | Adriaan Marten Heine van der Veen Anton Alink |
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Institution: | (1) Nederlands Meetinstituut, P.O.Box 654, 2600 AR Delft, The Netherlands Tel.: +31-15-2691500 Fax: +31-15-2612971 e-mail: AvanderVeen@NMi.nl, NL |
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Abstract: | The methodology of evaluating the performance of sampling, sample preparation, and subsampling is reviewed. The requirements
to be set for a successful experiment are revisited. The central role of the reference method is explained, and so is the
choice of the parameters and the measurement methods. Based on the principles of the "Guide to the expression of uncertainty
in measurement" (GUM), a statistical model is developed that demonstrates the influence of the experimental design on the
outcome of the assessment experiment. This relationship is often overlooked in practice, as it is hardly mentioned in written
standards dealing with this kind of quality assessments. The statistical framework thus developed covers the statistical procedures
commonly appearing in written standards. Finally, the issue of testing the significance of the bias obtained from the experiment
is discussed.
Received: 14 June 1997 · Accepted: 2 September 1997 |
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Keywords: | Sampling Quality assessment Statistical modelling Uncertainty |
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