Stochastic processes defining sensitivity and variability of internally calibrated quantitative NASBA-based viral load assays
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Stochastic processes defining sensitivity and variability of internally calibrated quantitative NASBA-based viral load assays.
For quantitative assessment of virus particles in patient plasma samples various assays are commercially available. Typical performance characteristics for such assays are sensitivity, precision and the range of linearity. In order to assess these properties it is common practice to divide the range of inputs into subranges in order to apply different statistical models to evaluate these proper...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gnf137