Learning objectives:

• Describe Properties of Distributions; Basics of Statistics
• Define Method Performance Specifications and Allowable Error
• Utilize Preliminary Experiments to Determine Method Performance for Random Error and Systematic Error
• Design Final Experiments to Ascertain for Method Performance
• Describe Clinical Epidemiology Statistical Approaches
• Establish and Verify Reference Intervals
• Utilize Tests of Statistical Significance, Including t-Test and F-test