Provisional Schedule
Instruction will take place from 9:00AM to 5:00PM each day, with a lunch break from noon to 1:00PM and 15 minute snack breaks in mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Topics covered will include the following.
- Introduction to the Quality Control of Assays
- ISO quality system, the nature of error, and salting
- Statistical parameters commonly used in error analysis - measures of central tendency, measures of variability, linear models.
- Simple graphical procedures.
- Statistical tests commonly used in treating duplicate analyses - F - test, t - test, paired t - test, testing linear models for bias, why statistical tests are essential (with examples)
- Practical measures of sampling, subsampling and analytical errors - Thompson-Howarth method, and the RMA linear approach
- Sources of sampling, subsampling and analytical variability
- Monitoring and quantifying data quality (with examples)
- General discussion and questions
