The effect of serial dilution error on calibration inference in immunoassay

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-32

  Higgins, Karen M ^a   Davidian, Marie ^b   Chew, Ginger ^c   Burge, Harriet ^c  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; ELISA; Generalized least squares; Measurement error; Precision profile; Variance function estimation

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; DILUTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ELISA; FUNCTION ESTIMATION; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; PRECISION PROFILE; SEQUENTIAL DILUTION; SERIAL DILUTIONS; STOCK SOLUTIONS; VARIANCE FUNCTION; VARIANCE FUNCTION ESTIMATION;

CALIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DILUTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0031919373     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533992     Document Type: Article

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