Lower confidence limits for critical systematic errors

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 16-17, 2007, Pages 1317-1320

  Gernand, Wojciech ^a   Dumnicka, Paulina ^a   Kuśnierz Cabala, Beata ^a   Kapusta, Maria ^a   Solnica, Bogdan ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bissell's formula; Critical systematic error; Lower confidence limit; Power function graph

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; OPTIMISM; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOLESTEROL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 35248863064     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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