Talk:Calibration curve

I'm new to wikipedia, but I like the idea of it, so I just added a chunk to this page. I expect most people who look at this page would be either students just learning about analytical chemistry or people from outside the field. So I tried to tailor it to that audience. The format isn't very "wikipedish" so I'm going to flag it for formatting.

I'm not going to remove the stub tag - I'll leave that to someone else.

Physical chemistry stub
Does this count as a stub anymore? it seems long enough to be considered an article. D Hill 13:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Linear regression
Not so keen on the linear regression bit, which is a highly inappropriate method for smoothing calibration curves and isn't used on the radiocarbon ones. Precise references escape me at the moment but there's stuff by Buck and Blackwell in Radiocarbon, a Gaussian process-based method by Gomez-Aguilar, another method by Christen, etc, etc. I'm sure the intcal04 paper/issue details better methods. Anyone up to the challenge? : Ferocci 11:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Not just analytical chemistry
From what I hear calibration and calibration curves are kind of a big deal in engineering, can that be discussed? For instance they're used when converting raw data sensors into engineering units.

Random example from Google: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/089/jresv89n2p187_A1b.pdf

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 * Agreed. In fact (though as an engineering student, I may be biased), this would appear to be the more common/general application of the word "Calibration curve". Will try to edit when I get the chance. Should probably be flagged as in need of cleanup. Suspender guy (talk) 01:15, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

"Lead too long" and "Check category" tags
This article is in need of some work: Suspender guy (talk) 01:28, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The primary issue is the chemistry/engineering category. While the concept of a calibration curve in chemistry may merit an article, calibration curves are very important in engineering (as mentioned below), and should certainly be covered more than they are in this article. Two separate articles may be needed, as the topics appear to be significantly unrelated. (Anyone with more chemistry expertise care to chime in?)
 * The lead section is very disconnected and jumps from topic to topic, most of which belong in the body of the article. Perhaps an even more significant re-write is needed.

Merger proposal
Standard curve pretty much covers the exact same thing. Either that one should be merged here or this one there. PointlessUsername (talk) 22:46, 26 May 2022 (UTC)