Impact of subgroup prevalences on partitioning of gaussian-distributed reference values

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1987-1999

  Lahti, Ari ^a   Petersen, Per Hyltoft ^a   Boyd, James C ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE;

EID: 0036840605     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/48.11.1987     Document Type: Article

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