Quality Assurance and Statistical Methods in LaboratoryLaajuus (5 ECTS)

Objective

The student will comprehend the laboratory quality system and the significance of its components with regard to the reliability of analysis results. She/he will learn to master mathematical and statistical methods in laboratory quality assurance.

Content

• History of quality assurance
• Quality systems in a laboratory
• Quality assurance of an analysis
• Control charts
• Validation of an analysis method
• Quality assurance of laboratory instruments and equipment
• Estimation
• Statistical testing
• Propagation of random error
• Introduction to measurement uncertainty
• Regression analysis

Qualifications

Mathematics