Validity of Lognormal Distribution in Analyzing Laboratory Test Values

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 6:290:1066-1067. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220270.

Abstract

We compared the distribution of laboratory test values with several parametric statistical distributions to show that a lognormal distribution can represent the distribution of laboratory test values. Then, we estimated the distributions of laboratory test values of four datasets including only three published values: two endpoints of reference interval (RI) and one median.

Keywords: Clinical Laboratory Tests; Lognormal distribution; Statistical Distributions.

MeSH terms

  • Reference Values
  • Statistical Distributions*