Chemical Science and Technology
Laboratory
Challenges in Assurance of
Data Integrity
vA large-scale numeric database without
critical evaluation may
have an error rate of 2-5%
vCommon occurred errors – (a) typographical; (b) unit-conversion; (c) report interpretation; (d)
metadata compilation;
(e) errors in original report …
How to detect anomalous
values and how to enforce the scientific data integrity?