The Scripps data and sample policy follows the approach of the National Science Foundation described in publication NSF 24-124: Division of Ocean Sciences Sample and ...
The Central Limit Theorem is a statistical concept applied to large data distributions. It says that as you randomly sample data from a distribution, the means and standard deviations of the samples ...
When particles in a sample are the same size, one particle can be measured to report the result. If the sample has a narrow distribution, such as 10-25 µm, then measurement of just a few particles can ...