Abstract:
:Hypothesis testing is a methodological paradigm widely popularized outside the field of pure statistics, and nowadays more or less familiar to the largest part of biomedical researchers. Conversely, the equivalence testing is still somehow obscure and misunderstood, although it represents a conceptual mainstay for some biomedical fields like pharmacology. In order to appreciate the way it could suit laboratory medicine, it is necessary to understand the philosophy behind it, and in turn how it stemmed and differentiated along the history of classical hypothesis testing. Here we present the framework of equivalence testing, the various tests used to assess equivalence and discuss their applicability to laboratory medicine research and issues.
journal_name
Biochem Med (Zagreb)journal_title
Biochemia medicaauthors
Ialongo Cdoi
10.11613/BM.2017.001subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-02-15 00:00:00pages
5-13issue
1eissn
1330-0962issn
1846-7482pii
bm-27-5journal_volume
27pub_type
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