A note on the use of outlier criteria in Ontario laboratory quality control schemes

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 147-152

  Hayes, Kevin ^a   Kinsella, Anthony ^b   Coffey, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Boxplot; Dixon test; Grubbs test; Robust methods

Indexed keywords

CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; ONTARIO; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 33846387859     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2006.08.019     Document Type: Review

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