Intraindividual reference values

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 765-777

  Queraltó, Josep M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intraindividual variation; Reference change interval; Variance components; Within person reference values

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FORECASTING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LABORATORY TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME;

EID: 4344680123     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.129     Document Type: Article

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