The comparison of parametric and nonparametric bootstrap methods for reference interval computation in small sample size groups

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-60

  Coskun, Abdurrahman ^a   Ceyhan, Elvan ^b   Inal, Tamer C ^a   Serteser, Mustafa ^a   Unsal, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Confidence interval; Nonparametric bootstrap; Parametric bootstrap; Percentile; Reference interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873105731     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-012-0948-5     Document Type: Article

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