A technician trainee in a clinical laboratory will be allowed to perform routine glucose analyses when the data obtained by the trainee agree at the
90%
Confidence level (CL) with those of an experienced technologist. If the following results were obtained in two separate series of measurements: Trainee
,\bar{x} +-S=89.78+-0.32m(g)/(L),(Nx
)
=
(
6)
Technologist
/bar (Y)+-S=89.43+-0.25m(g)/(L)
(
Ny=5
) Should the trainee be allowed to do routine glucose analysis? The trainee should get more experience because the
RSD(0.0033)
for his analyses is greater than the
RSD(0.0028)
of the technologist's analyses. The trainee is allowed to do routine glucose analysis, because his RSD is less than 0.0040. The trainee should get more experience because the experiment
t=2.0>t_(90,9)=1.83
. The trainee is quite experienced because his analysis value is in the range of the Technologist.