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Analyst
; 127(12): 1669-75, 2002 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12537378
ABSTRACT
We have compared the reproducibility precisions provided by collaborative trials with precisions obtained from ruggedness tests specially designed to try to simulate between-laboratory variation. We found that the ruggedness tests underestimated the reproducibility variability consistently for those analytical methods requiring empirical calibration. The ruggedness tests provided on average a precision merely comparable with repeatability precision. This finding has implications for the estimation of uncertainty.