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Viability of Biological Phenomena and Measurement Errors

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Fundamentals of Clinical Research

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The variability of biological phenomena, as we perceive them, can be divided into three main components: phenotypic, temporal and measurement-related. Measurement-related variability includes every source of variation that occurs as a consequence of measurements and interpretation of results.

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(2007). Viability of Biological Phenomena and Measurement Errors. In: Fundamentals of Clinical Research. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0492-4_1

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