Confidence Intervals for Microbial Density Using Serial Dilutions with MPN Estimates

DOI10.1002/BIMJ.4710380415MaRDI QIDQ4717702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wallace E. Garthright, Robert J. Blodgett

Publication date 31 January 2000

Published in Biometrical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.4710380415

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervaldilution methodmost-probable-numberMPNserial dilutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Statistical tables (62Q05)

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