Ramsey, Michael H, Argyraki, Ariadni and Squire, Sharon (1998) Measurement uncertainty arising from sampling contaminated land: a tool for evaluating fitness-for-purpose. Contaminated Soil 1998: Sixth International FZK/TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil, Edinburgh, UK, 17 - 21 May 1998. Published in: Contaminated Soil ’98: The proceedings of ConSoil '98, the sixth international FZK/TNO conference on contaminated soil. 1 221-230. Thomas Telford, London. ISBN 9780727746566

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Abstract

New methods have recently been devised to estimate the uncertainty in measurements caused by the processes of both sampling and chemical analysis. Knowing this uncertainty, allows judgements to me made as to whether a sampling protocol is appropriate, based on a fitness-for-purpose criteria such as an acceptable level of uncertainty. A fundamental change in sampling philosophy is thereby to encourage the use of a range of appropriate sampling protocols that give estimates of uncertainty, rather
than to pursue the use of a single uniform protocol. to give measurements of acceptable quality.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Additional Information:	Sampling methods, quality control, reliability sampling, cost-benefit analysis, classification
Schools and Departments:	School of Life Sciences > Evolution, Behaviour and Environment
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	23 Jun 2021 07:56
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2021 15:02
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/99941

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