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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ther Drug Monit. 2015 Jun;37(3):389–394. doi: 10.1097/FTD.0000000000000168

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Diagram of an ideal assay with a constant CV%, but with an extra coefficient describing the assay SD (the measurement noise) when the true measurement is actually zero. The assay SD decreases as the measurement approaches zero, but still remains positive and finite as the blank value is encountered.