pubmed-article:6398712 | pubmed:abstractText | The serial-dilution assay is a standard microbiological method for estimating the density of organisms in a solution. The commonly used interval-estimation procedures of Woodward and deMan are described and compared. A new method for the calculation of two-sided confidence intervals, which is superior to the standard procedures, is presented. The computations are illustrated for a decimal dilution assay with three samples at each of three dilutions. | lld:pubmed |