Laboratory Statistics

Laboratory Statistics: Methods in Chemistry and Health Science, Second Edition, presents common strategies for comparing and evaluating numerical laboratory data. In particular, the text deals with the type of data and problems that laboratory scientists and students in analytical chemistry, clinical chemistry, epidemiology, and clinical research face on a daily basis. This book takes the mystery out of statistics and provides simple, hands-on instructions in the format of everyday formulas. Spreadsheet shortcuts and functions are included, along with many simple worked examples. This book is a must-have guide to applied statistics in the lab that will result in improved experimental design and analysis. This thoroughly revised second edition includes several new sections, more examples, and all formulas in Excel code.

• Provides comprehensive coverage of simple statistical concepts
• Familiarizes the reader with formatted statistical expression
• Presents simple, worked examples that make formulas easy to apply
• Includes spreadsheet functions that demonstrate how to find immediate solutions to common problems

Analytical and clinical chemists; epidemiologists; researchers in all laboratory science disciplines; physicists, engineers; students in these areas

1. Basics
2. Distributions of Data
3. Permutations, Combinations, Probability, Binominal and Poisson Distributions
4. Robust Estimators
5. Uncertainty
6. Difference Between Results
7. Non-Parametric Comparisons
8. Analysis of Variance
9. Analysis of Variance Components
10. Regression
11. Correlation and Covariance
12. Comparing Quantities
13. Performance Characteristics
14. Interpretation of the Elements of the ROC Analysis
15. Estimation of Minimal Sample Size (Power Analysis)
16. Agreement Between Categorical Assessments (Kappa (Κ)-Statistics) Some Metrological Concepts
17. Metrology, Accuracy, Trueness and Precision
18. Uncertainty Concept and Uncertainty Budget
19. Miscellanea