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SUBMITTER: Ialongo C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294150 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biochemia medica 20181215 1
Quantiles and percentiles represent useful statistical tools for describing the distribution of results and deriving reference intervals and performance specification in laboratory medicine. They are commonly intended as the sample estimate of a population parameter and therefore they need to be presented with a confidence interval (CI). In this work we discuss three methods to estimate CI on quantiles and percentiles using parametric, nonparametric and resampling (bootstrap) approaches. The res ...[more]