Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1989, 54, 3031-3042
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19893031

The information-theoretical and system basis of quantitative analysis

Karel Eckschlager

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague 6

Abstract

It is shown that the individual subsystems of a stochastic analytical system affect the a posteriori uncertainty and thereby, the information gain of the analytical result. The effects of sampling, separation procedures and calibration on the information gain of quantitative analysis, expressed in terms of the extended divergence measure, are discussed, and rules that can be utilized in the optimization of analytical procedures are given.