Sale Price: £39.00. (Normallly £49.00). This book describes reference intervals and their use in the clinical laboratory setting. Intended for those who work in the area of laboratory medicine, Reference Intervals addresses the common methods and limitations of deriving and interpreting reference intervals and covers the following topics:
History and use of the reference interval
Description of the current standards
Real-world constraints and solutions
Statistical modeling of reference intervals
How to deal with outliers and/or small samples
Description of robust reference intervals
The transference problem
The accompanying CD-ROM contains 264 tables of reference intervals, based on physician-determined healthy individuals, covering 33 analytes and 3 ethnic groups. Included among these tables are reference intervals based on the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). Also included: SAS programs that derive traditional and robust reference intervals with outliers removed.
System Requirements for the CD-ROM:
Microsoft Windows 98 or above and Microsoft Word 97 or above to view the NHANES reference intervals
SAS Version 8.2 or above to derive reference intervals from raw data
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