Accreditation and Quality Assurance

, Volume 17, Issue 6, pp 635–637 | Cite as

About literature information on functional relationships and limits of detection: may authors improve their statements?

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Abstract

Attention of experimentalists is called at a proper description of figures of merits when detailing the performances of some electrochemical sensors.

Keywords

Functional relationships Uncertainties of slope and intercept of regression lines Linear ranges Limit of detection approaches 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional SciencesUniversity of MilanMilanItaly

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