Confidence in Altman-Bland plots: A critical review of the method of differences

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-149

  Ludbrook, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fixed bias; Heteroscedasticity; Homoscedasticity; Limits of agreement; Prediction interval; Proportional bias; Repeatability coefficient

Indexed keywords

ALTMAN BLAND PLOT; BIOSTATISTICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MILK, HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 75649119259     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2009.05288.x     Document Type: Review

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