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  2. Laboratory quality control - Wikipedia

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    Laboratory quality control is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. Quality control (QC) is a measure of precision, or how well the measurement system reproduces the ...

  3. False positives and false negatives - Wikipedia

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    In statistical hypothesis testing, the analogous concepts are known as type I and type II errors, where a positive result corresponds to rejecting the null hypothesis, and a negative result corresponds to not rejecting the null hypothesis. The terms are often used interchangeably, but there are differences in detail and interpretation due to ...

  4. Titration - Wikipedia

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    Titration. A burette and Erlenmeyer flask (conical flask) being used for an acid–base titration. Titration (also known as titrimetry[ 1] and volumetric analysis) is a common laboratory method of quantitative chemical analysis to determine the concentration of an identified analyte (a substance to be analyzed).

  5. Type I and type II errors - Wikipedia

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    Type I and type II errors. In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error, or a false positive, is the rejection of the null hypothesis when it is actually true. For example, an innocent person may be convicted. A type II error, or a false negative, is the failure to reject a null hypothesis that is actually false.

  6. Accuracy and precision - Wikipedia

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    In the language of statistics: Accuracy is a description of systematic errors, a measure of bias. Precision is a description of random errors, a measure of variability. In the context of observations made on a ratio or interval scale, a statistical sample can be said to be accurate if its average is close to the true value of the quantity being ...

  7. Medical laboratory - Wikipedia

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    A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are conducted out on clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. [ 1] Clinical medical laboratories are an example of applied science, as opposed to research laboratories that focus on ...

  8. Observational error - Wikipedia

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    When either randomness or uncertainty modeled by probability theory is attributed to such errors, they are "errors" in the sense in which that term is used in statistics; see errors and residuals in statistics.

  9. Basis set superposition error - Wikipedia

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    Other than using infinite basis sets, two methods exist to eliminate the BSSE. In the chemical Hamiltonian approach (CHA), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] basis set mixing is prevented a priori , by replacing the conventional Hamiltonian with one in which all the projector -containing terms that would allow mixing have been removed.