Abstract

The recent availability of the microcomputer, marketed primarily for home use, has given the analytical toxicologist a very inexpensive source of computer capability. Probative studies have shown that the microcomputer can be applied to statistical analysis, to data base searching, and to calculations of the discriminating power of analytical systems.

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