Establishing and evaluating pediatric thyroid reference intervals on the Roche Modular Analytics E 170 using computational statistics and data-mining techniques

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 767-770

  Henderson, M P A ^a,b   Grey, V ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^b David Braley Cardiac Vascular and Stroke Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boot strapping; Data mining; Free thyroxine; FT4; Non parametric; Pediatric; Reference intervals; Robust; Thyroid; Thyroid stimulating hormone; TSH

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA MINING; HUMANS; INFANT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 79958782015     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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