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Lowest quantity observable with sufficient confidence above the background
The limit of detection is the lowest signal, or the lowest corresponding quantity to be determined from the signal, that can be observed with a sufficient degree of confidence or statistical significance. However, the exact threshold used to decide when a signal significantly emerges above the continuously fluctuating background noise remains arbitrary and is a matter of policy and often of debate among scientists, statisticians and regulators depending on the stakes in different fields. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Detection limitA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Inhalable microplastics prevails in air: Exploring the size detection limitInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: King Solomon's CarpetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Resolution limit in community detectionCited 2,502 times
- Go sideways: Calibration curveA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Blank valueA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Resolution limit in community detection
Determination of the lower limit of detection.
Improving the Detection Limit of Anion-Selective Electrodes: An Iodide-Selective Membrane with a Nanomolar Detection Limit
The detection limit
Evaluation of Approximate Methods for Calculating the Limit of Detection and Limit of Quantification
Femtomolar Concentration Detection Limit and Zeptomole Mass Detection Limit for Protein Separation by Capillary Isoelectric Focusing and Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection
Approaching the Quantum "Limit" for Force Detection
Surpassing the Amplifier Limit for Force Detection
🆕 Influential since 2022
Inhalable microplastics prevails in air: Exploring the size detection limit
Photoelectrochemical detection of tetracycline with exceptional speediness, ultralow detection limit, and high selectivity
Graphene-Based Glucose Sensors with an Attomolar Limit of Detection
On the latent limit of detection of thermogravimetric analysis
Label-Free Neuropeptide Detection beyond the Debye Length Limit
📚 Books worth reading
King Solomon's CarpetRuth Rendell · 1991
Murder UndergroundMavis Doriel Hay · 2014- 📕Public hearing before Senate Law, Public Safety, and Defense CommitteeNew Jersey. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Law, Public Safety, and Defense., New Jersey. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Law, Public Safety, and Defense · 1987
Inco Comes to LabradorRaymond Goldie · 2005
Devices for warning drivers of police radar speed measuringKenneth L. Ward · 1962- 📕How to outfox the bearsDavid W. Springs · 1987
Fundamental principles in radar speed measurementsMassachusetts. Department of State Police · 1994- 📕SALT verificationMark M Lowenthal · 1978
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