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A statistical examination of the accuracy of vitamin A assays: An analysis of three co-operative experiments designed to ascertain the value of the conversion factor for transforming spectrophotometric values into international units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. O. Irwin
J. O. Irwin
Affiliation:
Of the Statistical Staff, Medical Research Council
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The three experiments with which this report deals were undertaken with the object of re-examining the conversion factor 1600 which had been provisionally allotted by the Second International Conference on Vitamin Standardization (1934) for converting the results of spectrophotometric tests for vitamin A into international units.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 43 , Issue 5 , April 1944 , pp. 291 - 314
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1944

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