Information content of the determinations of the amount of an analyte

Abstract

It is shown how the information content expressed in terms of the extended divergence measure I(r; p, p0) depends on the amount of the component to be determined when homoscedastic and heteroscedastic dependences of the analytical signal on the amount of the analyte are distinguished. The importance of the accuracy is pointed out, with which the amount of the analyte is known in a reference material employed for testing a particular analytical method. Rules are set, the maintaining of which is aimed at avoiding the origin of null information content of analytical results.