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Phthalates and Nonylphenols in Roskilde Fjord

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800600DnOPMean + - sdRegression l<strong>in</strong>eFound, ng/g40020000 200 400 600 800-200Added, ng/gFigure 55 L<strong>in</strong>earity & precision test, DnOP <strong>in</strong> sediment.12.3.1 L<strong>in</strong>earity of method for sedimentThe l<strong>in</strong>earity of the analytical method is tested by l<strong>in</strong>ear regression analysis,Table 27.Table 27 L<strong>in</strong>ear regression analysis of performance experiment for sediment methodRegression NP NPDE DBP DPP BBP DEHP DnOP DnNPSlope 0.44 0.44 0.72 1.12 0.81 1.01 0.94 1.03Intercept 647 733 286 10.1 5.78 834 15.1 31.7Correlation coefficient 0.59 0.91 0.87 0.91 0.98 0.65 0.99 0.95Residual sd 293 762 131 165 64 174 54 64With<strong>in</strong> group sd 309 820 141 178 69 151 54 54F residual/with<strong>in</strong> 0.90 0.86 0.86 0.86 0.86 1.34 0.99 1.41p 0.56 0.58 0.58 0.58 0.58 0.37 0.51 0.35The slopes of the regression l<strong>in</strong>es as seen from Table 27, are also forsediment all reasonably close to 1, with the exception of NP <strong>and</strong> NPDE,as was the case for the water, <strong>and</strong> no doubt for the same reason (spikeused not chemical identical with substance measured). The <strong>in</strong>tercept istheoretically the sum of blank <strong>and</strong> naturally occurr<strong>in</strong>g substance, but <strong>in</strong>case of sediment, the latter dom<strong>in</strong>ate. For the test of l<strong>in</strong>earity, the sameremarks as those for the water method apply. No significant deviationsfrom l<strong>in</strong>earity (p

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