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Confidence interval of percentiles in skewed distribution: The importance of the actual coverage probability in practical quality applications for laboratory medicine

INTRODUCTION: Quality indicators (QI) based on percentiles are widely used for managing quality in laboratory medicine nowadays. Due to their statistical nature, their estimation is affected by sampling so they should be always presented together with the confidence interval (CI). Since no methodolo...

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Autor principal: Ialongo, Cristiano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31624457
http://dx.doi.org/10.11613/BM.2019.030101