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Review Articles

Drawing Attention to the Measurement Uncertainty Arising from Sampling in Chemical and Physicochemical Analyses: An Overview

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Pages 1605-1622 | Published online: 09 Feb 2022
 

Abstract

Sometimes, analytical chemicals forget that the measurement process begins with the selection of the sample; thus, it must be understood that the measurement uncertainty is constituted by the association of the uncertainty arising from the sampling and the uncertainty arising from the traditional analytical process, that which is carried out in the laboratory. The analytical process is well-controlled, so its uncertainty is well defined; however, the uncertainty arising from sampling, for not having this controlled environment, is often not evident, so that there is still no culture to consider it for the calculation of measurement uncertainty. This study discusses the importance of the sampling uncertainty concerning the analytical uncertainty and details the current approaches available in the literature, such as the classical analysis of variance, the robust analysis of variance, and the range statistics. Moreover, this work highlights the recent manuscripts that are using these mentioned approaches, correlating them to the matrices, chemical and physical-chemical analytes, and analytical techniques. Finally, some case studies using the uncertainty information in compliance assessment show that the measurement uncertainty arising from sampling in chemical and physicochemical analyses cannot always be neglected.

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Funding

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.

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