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Measurement uncertainty estimation for derived biological quantities

  • Raúl Rigo-Bonnin ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Francesca Canalias

Corresponding author: Raúl Rigo-Bonnin, Laboratori Clínic, IDIBELL, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, C/Feixa Llarga s/n, 08907, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Teléfono: +34932607543, Fax: +34932607546, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2020-1003.


Received: 2020-06-29
Accepted: 2020-08-08
Published Online: 2020-09-01
Published in Print: 2021-01-26

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