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Clarification of the calculation of minimum detectable activity in low-level radioactivity measurements
K B Lee1, Jong Man Lee1, Tae Soon Park1
1Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Yuseong, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
We discuss a new method to determine the value of minimum detectable activity (MDA) in low-level measurements. The method is based on the Feldman-Cousins unified approach which effectively combines the construction of confidence intervals with the determination of the decision threshold and MDA. The new method requires a single probability to be pre-specified for the determination of MDA as well as decision threshold and confidence interval, in contrast with the ISO 11929 method requiring three probabilities.
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