Title: nominal property value coverage set
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - nominal property value coverage set
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.10014
Status: current

Definition
Subset of the nominal property value set containing the true nominal property value(s) of an examinand with a stated probability, based on the information available.

Example
A nominal property value coverage set for "Urine(midstream)—Bacterium; taxon" could be {Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus epidermidis} as specified in Bergey's manual.

Related Terms
- examinand: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09985
- nominal property value set: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09997
- true nominal property value(s): https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10001

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 927 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)

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- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10014/xml

Citation: Citation: 'nominal property value coverage set' 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.10014
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