The index of individuality is often a misinterpreted quantity characteristic

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 655-661

  Petersen, Per Hyltoft ^a   Fraser, Callum G ^b   Sandberg, Sverre ^c   Goldschmidt, Henk ^d  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Between and within subject biological variation; Decision limit; False positive and false negative results; Index of individuality; Population based reference intervals; Predictive values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE;

BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032858999     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.102     Document Type: Article

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