TABLE OF FIGURES

• Figure 1: All data from SRM 114p.

• Figure 2: Data with the Bootstrap mean after the outliers are eliminated.
• Figure 3: Example of correction obtained using the correction factor. The cement used was CCRL 131. (A) only the outliers R and L were not plotted; (B) the outliers identified by the bootstrap method are not included.
• Figure 4: Comparison between the distribution calculated from all the data and the one calculated from only the LAS-W data.

• Figure 5: Bar graph of the median diameters for all the methods.

TABLE OF TABLES

• Table 1: Particle size measurement methods commonly used in characterizing fine inorganic powders.
• Table 2: Data from all methods except sets L and R. The results from the Bootstrap calculation are also shown. Data that lie outside the 95 % confidence limits are shown in bold, and data that are greater than 5 % outside the 95 % confidence limits are indicated as gray cells.
• Table 3: Bootstrap mean and 95 % confidence limits calculated without the outliers.
• Table 4: Bootstrap data for the LAS-W without the outliers (B, J, N , U)
• Table 5: Data from LAS-W without the sets L and R. The results from the Bootstrap calculation is also shown. In bold the data that are outside the 95 % confidence limits and in the gray area the data that are more than 5 % outside the 95 % confidence limits.
• Table 6: Average median diameter from LAS-W method.
• Table 7: Average median diameter from LAS-D method.
• Table 8: Average median diameter from EZS method.

• Table 9: Median diameters by SEM and Sedimentation