Empower Tip: Review Window and the Processing Method

In this tip, we will begin a short series answering a few recent questions I received.

Question: How do I have Empower report ‘0’ for a peak field when the peak is missing?

Great question. Let me show you how it is done.

STEP 1 Oftentimes, we want to average the area of a peak over multiple samples or perhaps average the amount of an analyte found in multiple samples. Start with a simple summary table for ‘Amount’ and you will notice that in some samples the peak is missing. Therefore, there is no amount reported. Empower reports the average Amount for only those samples where the analyte has been found.

We can create a simple Custom Field which replaces the blank field with a ‘0’.

The new summary reflects an average of all the samples including the ones where the analyte was not found.

It’s that easy!