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A Note on Dilution Assays with Errors in Dilutions
Author(s) -
Trajstman A. C.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
biometrical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-4036
pISSN - 0323-3847
DOI - 10.1002/bimj.4710380304
Subject(s) - serial dilution , dilution , diluent , mathematics , statistics , chromatography , chemistry , medicine , physics , thermodynamics , alternative medicine , pathology , nuclear chemistry
Dilution assays involve a number of steps in the preparation of the dilutions and the delivery of the diluent. These steps may give rise to dilution errors. If assays are treated as if the nominal dilutions have been used then under estimates of micro‐organism density may occur. In this paper models for dilution errors are introduced.