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C K Bayne1, A B Dindal, R A Jenkins
1Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA. bayneck@ornl.gov
Abstract:
Immunoassay test kits are promising technologies for measuring analytes under field conditions. Frequently, these field-test kits report the analyte concentrations as falling in an interval between minimum and maximum values. Many project managers use field-test kits only for screening purposes when characterizing waste sites because the results are presented as semiquantitative intervals. However, field-test kits that report results as intervals can also be used to make project-related decisions in compliance with false-rejection and false-acceptance decision error rates established during a quantitative data quality objective process. Sampling and analysis plans can be developed that rely on field-test kits to meet certain data needs of site remediation projects.
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