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. 2015 Sep 24;44(5):1749–1754. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv171

Suppl. Table S4.

z-scored results from all participating laboratories in round 1 (top) and 2 (bottom) and inter-laboratory variation in z scores (as standard deviation) between all laboratories and separated by technique

Lab 1 Lab 2 Lab 3 Lab 4 Lab 5 Lab 6 Lab 7 Lab 8 Lab 9 Lab 10 lab 10-2 SD SD SD South/
South South STELA qPCR qPCR qPCR qPCR qPCR qPCR qPCR qPCR all qPCR STELA
round 1
0.453 −0.012 0.751 0.480 0.306 0.703 0.663 −0.033 0.319 0.288 0.271 0.385
0.344 0.928 0.540 −0.666 0.527 0.492 0.239 0.876 0.417 0.463 0.524 0.296
2.414 1.894 2.280 1.395 1.538 1.419 2.370 1.330 1.484 0.453 0.389 0.270
0.165 0.670 −0.094 −0.795 −0.426 −0.242 0.083 −0.210 −0.491 0.426 0.298 0.390
−1.075 −0.727 −1.172 −1.245 −1.358 −0.561 −1.699 −1.030 0.357 0.379 0.246
−1.073 −1.004 −0.958 −1.280 −1.303 −1.541 −1.176 −1.159 −1.312 0.181 0.138 0.058
−0.061 −0.264 −0.320 0.177 0.201 0.165 −0.162 0.161 0.147 0.209 0.137 0.136
−1.035 −1.416 −1.092 −1.333 −1.474 −1.423 −1.327 −1.337 0.158 0.067 0.205
−0.295 0.129 −0.506 0.891 1.166 0.413 1.338 0.998 1.496 0.723 0.382 0.324
−0.338 −0.457 −0.519 −0.117 −0.054 −0.236 0.124 −0.066 −0.049 0.213 0.117 0.092
round 2
0.998 1.029 1.242 −0.217 0.435 0.300 0.643 0.591 0.124 −0.143 0.140 0.483 0.317 0.133
1.349 1.635 1.454 1.549 1.455 0.778 1.521 1.386 1.624 1.397 0.398 0.414 0.244
1.449 1.622 1.987 2.030 1.215 1.554 0.974 1.302 1.250 1.131 0.169
−0.093 −0.098 0.043 −0.592 −0.572 −0.455 −0.095 −0.177 −0.705 −0.336 −0.365 0.247 0.210 0.080
−0.313 −0.073 −0.231 −0.880 −0.794 −0.817 −0.704 −0.444 −0.803 −0.387 0.289 0.242 0.170
−0.233 −0.434 −0.503 0.222 0.146 0.239 −0.283 0.151 0.158 0.273 0.919 0.310 0.245 0.157
−0.061 −0.264 −0.320 0.177 0.201 0.165 −0.162 0.161 0.147 0.100 0.195
−1.228 −1.349 −1.077 −1.313 −1.295 −1.446 −1.317 −1.376 −1.336 −1.566 0.138 0.104 0.123
−1.252 −1.278 −1.028 −1.296 −1.258 −1.561 −1.517 −1.352 −1.376 −1.329 −1.527
−0.428 −0.292 −0.351 0.853 1.081 0.754 0.429 0.953 1.193 0.819 1.024 0.615 0.235 0.068
median 0.310 0.245 0.170