Detection of outliers in reference distributions: Performance of horn's algorithm

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2326-2332

  Solberg, Helge Erik ^a,c   Lahti, Ari ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BOX FUNCTION; COX FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; HORN ALGORITHM; JOHN AND DRAPER MODULUS FUNCTION; LABORATORY; MANLY EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 28044457628     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.058339     Document Type: Article

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