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Michael Thompson • Philip J Lowthian
Birkbeck University of London, UK
Imperial College Press
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NOTES ON STATISTICS AND DATA QUALITY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS
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Preface
This book is based on the experience of teaching statistics for many years to
analytical chemists and the specific difficulties that they encounter. Many
analytical chemists find statistics difficult and burdensome. That is a per-
ception that we hope to dispel. Statistics is straightforward and it adds a
fascinating extra dimension to the