Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry

James Miller, Jane C Miller

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780273730439
• Edition: 6
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

This popular textbook gives a clear account of the principles of the main statistical methods used in modern analytical laboratories. Such methods underpin high quality analyses in areas such as the safety of food, water and medicines, environmental monitoring, and chemical manufacturing. The treatment throughout emphasises the underlying statistical ideas, and no detailed knowledge of mathematics is required. There are numerous worked examples, including the use of Microsoft Excel and Minitab, and a large number of student exercises, many of them based on examples from the analytical literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry
• Contents
• Preface to the sixth edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary of symbols
• Introduction
• Statistics of repeated measurements
• Significance tests
• The quality of analytical measurements
• Calibration methods in instrumental analysis: regression and correlation
• Non-parametric and robust methods
• Experimental design and optimisation
• Multivariate analysis
• Solutions to exercises
• Appendix 1: Commonly used statistical significance tests
• Appendix 2: Statistical tables
• Index