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TRMC07 Implementing MCERTS for the
chemical testing of effluents - Essential statistics
24 March 2010, 1 day
The Environment Agency established its Monitoring Certification
Scheme (MCERTS) to ensure the delivery of high quality
environmental measurements. The MCERTS "Performance standard
for organisations undertaking sampling and chemical testing of
untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade
effluents" is due to be published in July 2008.
The standard requires that where results are to be submitted to
the Agency for regulatory purposes, laboratories must both fulfil
the general requirements of ISO/IEC 17025, and meet specific method
validation and performance requirements laid down in the
performance standard. This course, organised and delivered in
conjunction with UKAS, explains the method validation requirements
of the new standard and covers the statistics required for the
evaluation of validation data to meet the requirements of
MCERTS.
What are the benefits?
This course will help you:
- Meet the method performance requirements for MCERTS for
effluent testing;
- Understand the most important statistical concepts used in
method validation;
- Select the most appropriate statistics for evaluating
validation data;
- Carry out statistical significance tests;
- Assess whether test methods meet the precision and bias
requirements of MCERTS.
Content
The course will cover:
- The MCERTS performance requirements
- Essential statistical parameters for MCERTS
- Calculating degrees of freedom
- Evaluating method bias
- Evaluating method precision
- Significance testing: t-tests and the F-test
- Analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at analysts who need to validate methods to
meet the requirements of the new MCERTS standard for chemical
testing of sewage and effluents. It will also be of interest to
those involved with the validation of methods for the analysis of
soil samples - the statistical techniques explained during the
course are relevant to the implementation of the MCERTS standard
for the chemical testing of soils.
schedule
| Start date/time |
24 March 2010 9.00 |
| Duration |
1 day |
| Cost |
£495 + VAT (£581.63) |
| Location |
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