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Meeting data quality objectives with interval information.

C K Bayne·A B Dindal·R A Jenkins·D M Crumbling·E N Koglin
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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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Data CollectionEnvironmental MonitoringFalse Negative ReactionsFalse Positive ReactionsHazardous WasteImmunoassayQuality ControlSensitivity and SpecificityTime FactorsEvaluation StudyJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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C K Bayne, A B Dindal, R A Jenkins, D M Crumbling, E N Koglin. 2001-08-15. Meeting data quality objectives with interval information.. https://doi.org/10.1021/es001572m

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