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Industrial and environmental microbiology

statistical estimate of cell concentration from the pattern of growth and no growth in replicate diluted tubes.

In industrial and environmental microbiology, most probable number refers to statistical estimate of cell concentration from the pattern of growth and no growth in replicate diluted tubes. This meaning comes from Cochran (1950) in Biometrics.[1]

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References

  1. Cochran, W. G. (1950). Estimation of Bacterial Densities by Means of the "Most Probable Number". Biometrics, 6(2), 105. https://doi.org/10.2307/3001491

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