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Assessing the Reliability of Water-Test Kits for Use in Pond Aquaculture
Naigaga et al., 2017. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 48(4): 555-562.
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- Source taxon as published
- Pond-aquaculture water samples and analytical methods, not shrimp
- Environment
- Pond-aquaculture water analysis compared with standard methods
- Life stages
- not applicable
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-12
What was studied
Study shape: Several field kits and strips were compared with standard methods by the management decisions each result would produce.
Experimental unit: Water sample and paired analytical-method comparison
Endpoints: decision agreement, weighted kappa, analyte-specific disagreement.
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What it can support: Reliability differed by kit and analyte, including nitrate decision disagreement for two tested strip products.
What it cannot support: The study does not validate every current product, make all strips inadequate or show that a kit result equals a laboratory concentration without method context.
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Topics: Water testing, Water parameters, Nitrogen waste
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