Biological variation: The effect of different distributions on estimated within-person variation and reference change values

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 725-736

  Røraas, Thomas ^a,b   Støve, Bård ^b   Petersen, Per Hyltoft ^a   Sandberg, Sverre ^a,b,c  

^a Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84964842601     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2015.252296     Document Type: Article

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