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A computer program for estimation of reference percentile values in laboratory data.

R G Rossing·W E Hatcher
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Abstract

It has been suggested that the physician would be aided in his interpretation of clinical laboratory results if the data were reported in terms of percentile ranking in a reference population as well as in conventional units. This paper describes a FORTRAN porgram for estimating the necessary reference percentile values by means of regression over 20% of the distribution rather than by interpolation between adjacent points. The regression estimates are shown to have a negligible bias and to be somewhat more stable than those obtained by interpolation.

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Clinical Laboratory TechniquesComputersDiagnosis, Computer-AssistedHumansMonte Carlo MethodRegression AnalysisStatistics as TopicJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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R G Rossing, W E Hatcher. 1979. A computer program for estimation of reference percentile values in laboratory data.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-468x(79)90019-9

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