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With all spectra replicated and again using any integration methodology, the intensity errors can be calculated as described in the `Peak heights with all spectra replicated' section above.
 
== IUPAC - pooled standard deviation ==
[http://goldbook.iupac.org/P04758.html IUPAC :pooled standard deviation]
 
A problem often arises when the combination of several series of measurements performed under similar conditions
is desired to achieve an improved estimate of the imprecision of the process. If it can be assumed that all the
series are of the same precision although their means may differ, the pooled standard deviations $s_p$
from $k$ series of measurements can be calculated as
$$
s_p=\sqrt{\frac{(n_1-1)s_1^2+(n_2-1)s_2^2+...+(n_k-1)s_k^2}{n_1+n_2+...+n_k-k}}
$$
The suffices $1, 2, ..., k$ refer to the different series of measurements. In this case it is assumed that there exists a single underlying standard deviation $\sigma$ of which the pooled standard deviation $s_p$ is a better estimate than the individual calculated standard deviations $s_1, s_2, ..., s_k$, For the special case where $k$ sets of duplicate measurements are available, the above equation reduces to
$$
s_p=\sqrt{\frac{\sum(x_{i1}-x_{i2})^2}{2k}}
$$
Results from various series of measurements can be combined in the following way to give a pooled relative standard deviation $s_{r,p}$:
$$
s_{r,p}=\sqrt{\frac{\sum(n_i-1)s_{r,i}^2}{\sum n_i -1}} = \sqrt{\frac{\sum(n_i-1)s_i^2x_i^{-2}}{\sum n_i -1}}
$$
== See also ==
[[Category:Analysis]]
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