3rd Edition
Theory of Sampling and Sampling Practice, Third Edition
A step-by-step guide for anyone challenged by the many subtleties of sampling particulate materials. The only comprehensive document merging the famous works of P. Gy, I. Visman, and C.O. Ingamells into a single theory in a logical way - the most advanced book on sampling that can be used by all sampling practitioners around the world.
INTRODUCTION AND A MANAGEMENT SRATEGY
1. Definition of Basic Terms and Symbols
2. A Management Strategy
FUNDAMENTAL STATISTICAL CONCEPTS USED IN THE THEORY OF SAMPLING
3. Fundamental Statistical Concepts
4. A Logical Introduction to the Components of the Overall Estimation Error
HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY
5. A Logical Introduction to the Notion of Heterogeneity
6. Heterogeneity of a Zero-Dimensional Lot
7. Heterogeneity of a One-Dimensional Lot: Notion of Variography
SAMPLING ERRORS INTRODUCED BY VARIOUS FORMS OF HETEROGENEITY
8. Sampling of one-dimensional lots: the continuous model
9. Zero-dimensional lots and an introduction to the discrete model
10. The Fundamental Sampling Error
11. Minimizing the Fundamental Sampling Error in sampling protocols
12. Other approaches, a strategy, and cardinal rules for the estimation of the variance of FSE
13. The Grouping and Segregation Error
INTEGRATION OF VISMAN AND INGAMELLS’S WORKS INTO THE THEORY OF SAMPLING
14. An introduction to Visman’s work
15. Theoretical, practical, and economic difficulties in sampling for trace constituents
16. From links between Gy and Ingamells to a sampling strategy
17. The In-situ Nugget Effect: a transition between Geostatistics and the Theory of Sampling
THE CAPITAL NOTION OF SAMPLING CORRECTNESS
18. The Increment Materialization Error
19. Sampling modes
20. The Increment Delimitation Error taking place during exploration, mining and when sampling
21. The Increment Delimitation Error at a processing plant
22. The Increment Delimitation Error during sampling at the laboratory
23. The Increment Extraction Error during exploration and mining
24. The Increment Extraction Error during sampling in a processing plant
25. The Increment Extraction Error taking place at the laboratory
26. The Increment Preparation Error and the notion of sampling integrity
THE INCREMENT WEIGHTING AND WEIGHING ERRORS
27. The Increment Weighting Error
28. The Weighing Error
REVIEW OF SOME NOTORIOUS SAMPLING PROBLEMS
29. Sampling for the determination of the moisture content
30. Peculiarities about the sampling of precious metals and other very heavy minerals Introduction
31. Sampling of liquid and solid wastes and sampling of the environment Introduction
32. Solvable and unsolvable sampling problems
CHRONOSTATISTICS
33. A strategy to take better advantage of existing chronological data
34. The use of the variogram to elaborate meaningful process control charts
35. Case studies where variography is an effective tool to discover and quantify structural problems
HOMOGENIZATION
36. An introduction to homogenizing processes
37. Bed-blending techniques
RECOMMENDATIONS TO MANUFACTURERS OF SAMPLING EQUIPMENT AND TO ENGINEERING FIRMS
38. Recommendations for the design, installation and maintenance of sampling systems
Biography
Dr. Pitard is a well-known authority on sampling theory and practice. He has a Doctorate of Technologies from the University of Aalborg. He is the recipient of the famous Pierre Gy’s Gold Medal for excellence in promoting and his teaching of the Theory of Sampling all around the world.
"The unique feature of this well written comprehensive book is its step-by-step guidance in all thirty-eight chapters under twelve parts. Basic knowledge of calculus, matrix theory and mathematical statistics is essential to comprehend this book. ... I enjoyed reading this book. I recommend this book to engineers, geologists, chemists, environmental scientists, instructor of statistics courses and computing professionals."
-Ramalingam Shanmugam in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, June 2020
