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In the preceding contribution, some of the systematic distortions to single-photon counting experiments were discussed. In this contribution the statistical nature of the data will be examined.
‘... The contemporary fashion for using mathematical materials at every possible point of an argument induces a tendency to accept statistical information as facts rather than as evidence, in a wide variety of fields’.
[J.R. Ravetz, Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems, Oxford Univ.Press, 1971, p.122]
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The following discussion is based on the paper: On the Reliability of Fluorescence Decay Data,A.L. Hinde, B.K. Selinger and P.R. Nott, Aust.J.Chem. 30 2383 (1977) A fuller documentation is provided in A.L. Hinde: Ausc. Res. Grant.Comm. Working Document 3,B.K. Selinger, ed. (1975)
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Selinger, B.K., Hinde, A.L. (1983). Least Squares Methods of Analysis. In: Cundall, R.B., Dale, R.E. (eds) Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Biochemistry and Biology. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 69. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1634-4_7
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