ArticleStatistical methods in medical research2021
Reference range: Which statistical intervals to use?
Article in Statistical methods in medical research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Evaluating Pediatric Reference Ranges for Extended Immunophenotyping from a Finnish Cohort against Published References.Journal of clinical immunology · 2025Review
- Adaptive reference ranges: From A to Z.PloS one · 2025Article
- Regression-based rectangular tolerance regions as reference regions in laboratory medicine.Journal of applied statistics · 2025Article
- Influence of Potential Pharmacodynamic Drug Interactions in Pharmacotherapy of Coronary Heart Disease with Comorbid Conditions on Treatment Adherence: A Cross-Sectional Study of a Ukrainian Patient Cohort.Patient preference and adherence · 2025Article
- Introducing prediction intervals for sample means.Biochemia medica · 2024Review
- An intelligent grasper to provide real-time force feedback to shorten the learning curve in laparoscopic training.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- A comparison of methods to generate adaptive reference ranges in longitudinal monitoring.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Reference ranges, which are data-based intervals aiming to contain a pre-specified large proportion of the population values, are powerful tools to analyse observations in clinical laboratories. Their main point is to classify any future observations from the population which fall outside them as atypical and thus may warrant further investigation. As a reference range is constructed from a random sample from the population, the event 'a reference range contains
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