Kurtosis provides a good omnibus test for outliers in small samples

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 13-14, 2007, Pages 1032-1036

  Livesey, John H ^a  

^a Canterbury Health Laboratories Endolab   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Grubbs test; Kurtosis test; Outlier; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 34548131047     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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