title: Meeting data quality objectives with interval information.
abstract: 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 semiquantitative 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.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA. bayneck@ornl.gov
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Bayne
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Dindal
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Crumbling
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Koglin
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006256:Hazardous Waste; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D006256:Hazardous Waste