Title: performance characteristic of a measurement procedure
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - performance characteristic of a measurement procedure
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.08094
Status: current

Definition
Aspect of a measurement procedure that may be quantitatively investigated and assessed as part of procedure validation.


Notes
1) Performance characteristics that may be considered in procedure validation are analytical selectivity, sensitivity of a measuring system, working interval, ruggedness of a measurement procedure, linearity of a measuring system, linearity of calibration, critical value, limit of detection, limit of quantification, measurement trueness, and measurement precision.
2) Measurement uncertainty is not a performance characteristic of a particular measurement procedure but a property of the measurement result obtained using that measurement procedure.

Related Terms
- analytical selectivity: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08055
- critical value: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08017
- limit of quantification: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08022
- linearity of a measuring system: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08023
- linearity of calibration: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08024
- measurement procedure: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08028
- procedure validation: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08097
- ruggedness of a measurement procedure: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08123
- sensitivity of a measuring system: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08124
- working interval: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08051

Source
- PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1031 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)

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Citation: Citation: 'performance characteristic of a measurement procedure' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08094
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