scholarly journals Introductory Chapter: History and Scope of Quality Control in Laboratories

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Gaffar Sarwar Zaman
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Author(s):  
Theodore M. Porter

This introductory chapter provides an overview of statistics. Statistics has become known in the twentieth century as the mathematical tool for analyzing experimental and observational data. Enshrined by public policy as the only reliable basis for judgments as to the efficacy of medical procedures or the safety of chemicals, and adopted by business for such uses as industrial quality control, it is evidently among the products of science whose influence on public and private life has been most pervasive. Statistical analysis has also come to be seen in many scientific disciplines as indispensable for drawing reliable conclusions from empirical results. The statistical tools used in the modern sciences have virtually all been worked out during the last century. However, the development of statistics was necessarily preceded by its invention. This was the contribution of the nineteenth century, the culmination of a tradition of statistical thinking that embraced writers from a variety of backgrounds working in areas which were otherwise unconnected.





2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-196 ◽  
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Jeffrey W McKenna ◽  
Terry F Pechacek ◽  
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L. L. Weed


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1956 ◽  
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Vol 27 (106) ◽  
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