A new approach to sample size calculation for reference interval studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3199-3212

  Jennen Steinmetz, Christine ^a   Wellek, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Coverage probability; Non central t distribution; Normal range; Precision; quantile estimates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 27144443380     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2177     Document Type: Article

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