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The strengths and limitations of various standards of accuracy in clinical laboratory analysis are the focus of this work. It presents a detailed study of important theoretical and empirical issues concerning the description, collection and application of reference values in laboratory medicine. The text also describes methods for deriving population-based reference ranges of other indicies involving biological variation among and within persons as well as analytical variation due to measurement error.

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The authorshave bridged the gap between the pedantic recitation of statistical dogma and practical application of those tools to the considerable task of establishing appropriate reference values for the analytes we measurethe most significant contribution they make is in relating this application to the real issue in laboratory medicine today: how we can contribute to lowering episode-of-care cost. -Clinical Chemistry thoroughauthoritativean excellent addition to departmental and institutional libraries. -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal This book is the first book I have seen which covers so much of the area of variation in measurement, and explains it very clearlyessential. -International Society for Clinical Biostatistics News

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Harris, Eugene K.; Boyd, James C.

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