Understanding Bland Altman analysis

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 141-151

  Giavarina, Davide ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agreement analysis; Bland Altman; Correlation of data; Laboratory research; Method comparison

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BLAND ALTMAN ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING BIAS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84930452611     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2015.015     Document Type: Article

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