Patent ID: 8712712
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of establishing a statistically valid assay mean and assay range for a particular lot of a quality control material, the method comprising: testing a number of samples from the particular lot of the quality control material and recording the results of the tests; computing a mean of the test results; accessing, from a computer storage device, a database of historical test results obtained from tests performed on prior lots of the quality control material; computing, using a computer system specially programmed to do so, at least in part from the historical test results a variability estimate that is an estimate of the variability of test results obtained from tests performed on at least one prior lot of the quality control material; specifying a target probability with which a new qualification test result performed on a sample of the new lot of quality control material will fall within the assay range; and computing, using the specially-programmed computer system, based at least in part on the mean and the variability estimate, a range of test result values within which a result from a qualification test of a sample from the particular lot of the quality control material is expected to fall, with the target probability.