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An experimental dependence of the relative standard deviation on analyte concentration of hyperbolic type, characterizing the precision of quantitative chemical analysis, was used to estimate the limits of detection and determination in the X-ray fluorescence analysis. A method is proposed for the determination of their values using the approximation of the experimental dependence of the relative standard deviation on the analyte concentration by a power function. The choice of the values of the relative standard deviation, being criteria for the estimation of these limits, is substantiated. A concept of the limits of detection and determination of an analytical procedure is formulated, according to which the limit of detection of an analytical procedure is an objective value depending only on the precision of determinations, and the limit of determination of an analytical procedure is a subjective value depending not only on the precision of determinations but also on the requirements to their limiting (admissible) accuracy. The limits of detection and determinations of an analytical procedure found by this approach completely characterize the possibilities of an analytical procedure in determining low concentrations of analytes. The proposed approach can be used for the estimation of the limits of detection and determination of analytical procedures and in other methods of chemical analysis with the hyperbolic dependence of the relative standard deviation on the analyte concentration.
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Original Russian Text © V.Ya. Borkhodoev, 2016, published in Zhurnal Analiticheskoi Khimii, 2016, Vol. 71, No. 9, pp. 910–915.
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Borkhodoev, V.Y. Estimation of limits of detection and determination in X-ray fluorescence analysis by the dependence of the relative standard deviation on analyte concentration. J Anal Chem 71, 872–877 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061934816070054
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