Nonlinear and Linear Regression Applied to Concentration versus Time Kinetic Data from Pinhas’s Sanitizer Evaporation Project

• Todd P. Silverstein ^[1]
  1. [1] Willamette University

     Willamette University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 88, Nº 11, 2011, págs. 1589-1590
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A recent article in this Journal described a laboratory experiment in which students study the evaporation kinetics of hand sanitizer. In this communication, the differences between using linear regression on linearized kinetics data versus nonlinear regression on raw data are examined, and arguments in favor of the latter are presented.