Determination of reference limits: Statistical concepts and tools for sample size calculation

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1685-1694

  Wellek, Stefan ^a,b   Lackner, Karl J ^c   Jennen Steinmetz, Christine ^b   Reinhard, Iris ^b   Hoffmann, Isabell ^a   Blettner, Maria ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

coverage proportion; non linear regression; order statistics; quantile; reference band

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; POPULATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84910128950     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0226     Document Type: Review

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