TABLE OF CONTENTS | ANSI | American National Standards Institute | |
| AQL | Acceptable Quality Level | |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing Materials | |
| BCR | Bureau Communautaire de R f rence | |
| BIPM | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures | |
| BS | British Standards | |
| BSI | British Standards Institution | |
| CEN | European Committee for Standardization | |
| CRM | Certified Reference Material | |
| EN | European Standards | |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practice | |
| GMP | Good Manufacturing Practice | |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization | |
| IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry | |
| LAL | Lower Action Limit | |
| LIMS | Laboratory Information Management System | |
| LOD | Limit of Determination | |
| LOQ | Limit of Quantification | |
| LWL | Lower Warning Limit | |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| OIML | International Organization of Legal Metrology | |
| PT | Proficiency Testing | |
| QA | Quality Assurance | |
| QC | Quality Control | |
| RM | Reference Material | |
| SI | International System of Units | |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure | |
| SRM | Standard Reference Material | |
| TQM | Total Quality Management | |
| UAL | Upper Action Limit | |
| UKAS | United Kingdom Accreditation Service | |
| UWL | Upper Warning Limit | |
| VIM | International vocabulary of basic and general terms in metrology |
| x | The arithmetic mean value of a sample set of data points |
| ? | The mean value of an entire population of data points |
| s | The sample standard deviation of a set of data points |
| ? | The standard deviation of an entire population of results |
| s 2 | Variance |
| rsd | Relative standard deviation |
| CV | Coefficient of Variation |
| r | Repeatability |
