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Color is rarely required in these figures. Lines with varying dash styles in line graphs and distinct grayscale shades in bar graphs or pie charts work as well. 

As was done with the lognormal distribution, it is desired to devise a set of coordinates for a graph on which a set of data that conforms to a Weibull distribution will plot as a straight line. To do so we can work with the complementary distribution function, Fw(c). The complementary distribution function of the Weibull distribution is... 

An increase in flow rate, whatever the temperature, reduces the average retention time. This reduction, however, is more pronounced (-24 min) at the lower temperature level than at the higher one (-15 min). We can also perceive the same result in Fig. 3A.4, by the difference in the slopes of the lines in the two graphs. If the objective of the experiment is to lower the retention time, we should work with experimental settings close to those of the run where the temperature and the flow rate — as well as the amount of ethanol — are at their higher levels (50 °C, 70% and 0.2mLmin" ). In Fig. 3A.4, this run is represented by the rightmost square. 

To draw a noise corrtour diagram, use graph paper and decide on a scale, say 1 cm = 2 m. Mark the grid points you irsed for the noise measurements on it, arrd write in the measured SPL. Mark on it rtrachines arrd work stations. You should then try to draw lines linking poirrts with the same SPL. Some lines will need to be estirrrated arrd will pass between measured points. The lines represent points with equal sormd pressure levels. See Fig. 10.3. 

Errors in trace analyses are usually hidden to all except those intimately involved in the sample collection and, later, in the bench analysis. In chromatography, especially, it is too easy to hide behind uncertain work because published research does not concern itself with exactly how the chromatographer makes his quantitative decisions. Today, with the advent of the microprocessor and with the use of black box instruments, the chromatographer knows even less about his calibration graph or line, or the error associated with it. In these instruments, a single point and the origin may determine the calibration graph. Similar problems exist in other modern instrumental analysis techniques. 

Only the orthogonal arrays are described in this chapter because they show in the clearest way how the off-line quality control works. The linear graphs and the signal-to-noise ratios are not dealt with here because the first does not add anything to the understanding (it is only a practical tool to set up an array), the latter is not recommended to be used by a number of authors because of the ambiguous character of these ratios. 

A significant simplification of the algorithm is associated with applying chemical kinetic methods taken from the graphs theory. A graph is a geometrical scheme consisting of a set of points connected by lines. It can be a complex electric scheme, a railway network, a plan of constructional works or finally, a complex chemical reaction. 

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