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How can we evaluate differences between serial measurements on the same sample? A new approach based on within-subject biological variation

  • Abdurrahman Coskun EMAIL logo , Mustafa Serteser , Hande F. Karpuzoglu and Ibrahim Unsal

Corresponding author: Abdurrahman Coskun, MD, Acibadem University, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Istanbul, Turkey

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

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Employment or leadership: None declared.

  4. Honorarium: None declared.

  5. Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2016-6-28
Accepted: 2016-7-7
Published Online: 2016-8-9
Published in Print: 2017-2-1

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