When a new test is developed or taken to use in your laboratory, you need to do a statistical evaluation of different performance characteristics of the test. This means testing…
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COVID-19 and how are the tests validated?
Due to the current coronavirus situation, there has been a lot of talk about COVID-19 tests. The general public is mostly concerned about the amount of testing, but there has…
We are here to help you fight COVID-19
With the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation developing quickly around the world, Finbiosoft is committed to supporting our laboratory customers and the diagnostics community in the fight against this infectious disease. Though we…
Introducing EQA Manager
Thank you for the last decade we spent together. It’s been an incredible ride with warmth, friendship, and support. Together we’ve brought validations and verifications to the next level. A…
What do you measure when you measure bias?
Two studies that are among our most used studies at the moment, are about measuring bias or difference between methods or instruments producing quantitative results. This is something which practically…
Back to basics – rethinking Validation Manager
As Validation Manager already contains quite a wide range of features, we have had an opportunity to do some upkeep tasks, sort of cleaning up and renewing things that have…
Three+ tips to reduce repetitive work
Validation Manager saves a lot of your time in data management and analysis, as well as in reporting your validations and verifications. But even if you know that you will…
Quantitative comparisons refined
For some time already we’ve been considering ways to help our users with their quantitative comparison studies. Earlier, we had a study for comparing instruments running same assays, and another…
A few words about confidence
When doing validations and verifications, we statistically estimate different performance characteristics of a method. The values gained by calculations never give exact information about the method under examination. So how…
New winds for Quantitative Accuracy
We’ve recently published Quantitative Accuracy study. For the first time, we have enabled determining systematic error and random error in a single study and combining these values for estimating total…