Observed, unknown distributions of clinical chemical quantities should be considered to be log-normal: A proposal

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1393-1396

  Haeckel, Rainer ^a   Wosniok, Werner ^b  

^a Bremer Zentrum fur Laboratoriumsmedizin   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

analytical imprecision; biological variation; distribution of quantities

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ACCURACY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

EID: 77958155921     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.273     Document Type: Note

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