Critical difference calculations revised: Inclusion of variation in standard deviation with analyte concentration

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 517-519

  Jones, Graham Ross Dallas ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITICAL DIFFERENCE CALCULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 73449146969     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2009.009083     Document Type: Article

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