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Data Combination From Multiple Sources Under Measurement Error, Hugo Gasca-Aragon

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Regulatory Agencies are responsible for monitoring the performance of particular measurement communities. In order to achieve their objectives, they sponsor Intercomparison exercises between the members of these communities. The Intercomparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment is an ongoing NIST/NOAA program. It was started in 1986 and there have been 19 studies to date. Using this data as a motivation we review the theory and practices applied to its analysis.

It is a common practice to apply some kind of filter to the comparison study data. These filters go from outliers detection and exclusion to exclusion of …