Importance of the choice of assumptions and models in the estimation of analytical quality specifications

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 488-493

  Petersen, Per Hyltoft ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analytical bias; Bi modal distributions; Ordinal scale; Point of care testing (POCT); Random error; Ratio scale; Systematic errors; Uni modal distributions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036827341     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-002-0523-6     Document Type: Article

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