A new approach to calculating the Sigma Metric in clinical laboratories

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 147-152

  Coskun, Abdurrahman ^a   Serteser, Mustafa ^a   Kilercik, Meltem ^a   Aksungar, Fehime ^a   Unsal, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bias; Sigma Metric; Six Sigma; Tolerance limit; z transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939978813     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-015-1113-8     Document Type: Article

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