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Response to comment on `Empirical versus modelling approaches to the estimation of measurement uncertainty caused by primary sampling'

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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:04 authored by Michael H Ramsey, Michael Thompson
A binomial model is used in the analysis of our original data by Geelhoed (Analyst, 2009, DOI: 10.1039/b812422a). However, in assessing the standard uncertainty of sampling pistachio nuts for aflatoxins, the real sampling target will be much more realistically described by a continuous distribution of analyte concentration amongst the batch of nuts rather than being made up of just `contaminated and `uncontaminated nuts. The binomial assumption is therefore unlikely to be realistic enough to describe the analyte concentration distribution within a real sample population. Doing so can lead to a substantial overestimate of both the uncertainty and its confidence interval and is therefore ineffective for explaining the discrepancy between the empirical and modelling estimates in our case.

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  • Published

Journal

Analyst

ISSN

0003-2654

Issue

9

Volume

134

Page range

1936-1936

Pages

1.0

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  • Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications

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2012-02-06

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