Reference intervals: An update

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 334, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 5-23

  Horn, Paul S ^a,b   Pesce, Amadeo J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

NHANES; Nonparametric statistics; Outliers; Quantiles; Reference intervals; Robust statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 12444249946     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(03)00133-5     Document Type: Review

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