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Sampling
Author(s) -
Brown L. R.
Publication year - 1955
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02637544
Subject(s) - sampling (signal processing) , computer science , prestige , point (geometry) , operations research , risk analysis (engineering) , business , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
Conclusion It is hoped that the foregoing general remarks on sampling procedures will point up the necessity for more care in this very important operation. In too many instances sampling has been delegated to persons not too well aware of the purpose and importance of the samples which they are taking, and possibly not too well qualified to handle the job. This situation could be improved markedly by better training and instruction of persons delegated to take samples, or preferably by selecting persons better qualified and more interested in this essential but rather non‐glamorous operation. There is also the need for better equipment specifically designed to handle the more difficult and troublesome sampling situations, some of which have been mentioned previously. Much unnecessary work on the part of the analyst could be eliminated, and at the same time his prestige could be raised materially, if the samples he received for analysis were always true and representative parts or segments of the entire lot of material on which his evaluation is based.