title: A computer program for estimation of reference percentile values in laboratory data.
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.
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003201:Computers; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013223:Statistics as Topic