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The previous Chapter was devoted to developing the conceptual foundations of the deterministic design-analysis. The concept of relative mass resolution was introduced as a deterministic measure of performance. The convexity theorem established a simple analytic relation between the point-source response set and the complete response set. This Theorem leads to the conclusion that the relative mass resolution is precisely equal to the expansion of the complete response set. Furthermore, an efficient computerizable min-max algorithm was established which enables evaluation of the expansion of the complete response set, while requiring explicit knowledge only of the point-source response set. Finally, the concept of relative mass resolution was extended to include the statistical uncertainty of the measurement.
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Ben-Haim, Y. (1985). Deterministic Design II: General Formulation. In: The Assay of Spatially Random Material. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5422-9_3
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