Total error vs. measurement uncertainty: The match continues

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 195-196

  Panteghini, Mauro ^a   Sandberg, Sverre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; TOTAL ERROR; UNCERTAINTY;

HUMANS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84955288282     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-1036     Document Type: Editorial

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