Reference regions of two or more dimensions

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 739-746

  Boyd, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Mahalonobis distance; Multivariate normal distribution; Multivariate reference region; Normalizing transformation; Univariate reference interval

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 4344578070     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.125     Document Type: Review

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