Abstract
Every analytical result should be expressed with some indication of its quality. The uncertainty as defined by Eurachem (“parameter associated with the result of a measurement that characterises the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the, …, quantity subjected to measurement”) is a good tool to accomplish this goal in quantitative analysis. Eurachem has produced a guide to the estimation of the uncertainty attached to an analytical result. Indeed, the estimation of the total uncertainty by using uncertainty propagation laws is components-dependent. The estimation of some of those components is based on subjective criteria. The identification of the uncertainty sources and of their importance, for the same method, can vary from analyst to analyst. It is important to develop tools which will support each choice and approximation. In this work, the comparison of an estimated uncertainty with an experimentally assessed one, through a variance test, is performed. This approach is applied to the determination by atomic absorption of manganese in digested samples of lettuce leaves. The total uncertainty estimation is calculated assuming 100% digestion efficiency with negligible uncertainty. This assumption was tested.
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da Silva, R.J.N.B., Camões, M.F.G.F.C., e Barros, J.S. (1998). Validation of the uncertainty evaluation for the determination of metals in solid samples by atomic spectrometry. In: De Bièvre, P., Günzler, H. (eds) Validation in Chemical Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27034-5_11
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