A Bayesian approach for estimating calibration curves and unknown concentrations in immunoassays

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 707-712

  Feng, Feng ^a   Sales, Ana Paula ^a   Kepler, Thomas B ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMMUNOASSAY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; IMMUNOASSAY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79951980576     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq686     Document Type: Article

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