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MEETING DATA QUALITY OBJECTIVES WITH INTERVAL INFORMATION
Citation:
Bayne, C. K., A. B. Dindal, R. A. Jenkins, D. Crumbling, AND E N. Koglin. MEETING DATA QUALITY OBJECTIVES WITH INTERVAL INFORMATION. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 35(16):3350-3355, (2002).
Impact/Purpose:
The objective of this task is to increase the acceptance and use of site characterization and monitoring technologies by providing verified performance data and reports on the performance of environmental monitoring and site characterization technologies.
Description:
Immunoassay test kits are promising technologies for measuring analytes under field conditions. Frequently, these field-test kits report the analyte concentrations as falling in an interval between minimum and maximum values. Many project managers use field-test kits only for screening purposes when Characterizing waste sites because the results are presented as semi quantitative intervals. However, field-test kits that report results as intervals can also be used to make project-related decisions in compliance with false-rejection and false-acceptance decision error rates established during a quantitative data quality objective process. Sampling and analysis plans can be developed that rely on field-test kits to meet certain data needs of site remediation projects.