Estimating imprecision profiles in biochemical analysis

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-125

  Berweger, Christian D ^a   Müller Plathe, Florian ^a,c   Hänseler, Edgar ^b   Keller, Herbert ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical method; Computer program; Imprecision profile; IMPROFIL

Indexed keywords

CA 15-3 ANTIGEN;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0344404398     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(98)00093-X     Document Type: Article

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