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One of the key issues in environmental monitoring and sampling is the degree of error in the measurements and the uncertainty in results taken from measured values. This chapter provides a brief summary of error and uncertainty in environmental measurements.
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Naimpally, A., Rosselot, K.S. (2013). Error and Uncertainty in Environmental Measurements. In: Environmental Engineering: Review for the Professional Engineering Examination. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49930-7_7
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