Open AccessNormal range estimation for repeated immunologic measures
Author(s) -
Jeremy M. G. Taylor,
William G. Cumberland,
Xiangyi Meng,
Janis V. Giorgi
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1098-6588
pISSN - 1071-412X
DOI - 10.1128/cdli.3.2.139-142.1996
Subject(s) - nonparametric statistics , range (aeronautics) , set (abstract data type) , simple (philosophy) , statistics , mathematics , estimation , medicine , computer science , engineering , philosophy , systems engineering , epistemology , programming language , aerospace engineering
A method for estimating a normal range from a set of immunologic measurements on control subjects when there may be more than one observation per subject is described. The method is nonparametric, makes efficient use of all observations, and is very simple to apply. It is illustrated on a set of 152 CD38 measurements from 58 healthy men.