title: [Helpful to bacterial identification: an alternative to probability calculation].
abstract: In the field of bacterial identification, the usual probabilistic approach may be criticized to some extent for the way it deals with weak tests. To improve this, we propose a modification which consists to compare the probability of the observed profile to the average of all the possible answers of a given bacteria. The result is discussed and showed to be understood in terms of plausibility rather than probability.
authors.affiliation: Institut supérieur catholique de Fleurus, section chimie clinique, ISC, Fleurus, Belgique.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van Oystaeyen
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011336:Probability