Table 1

Urinary iodine concentration distribution of raw data for days 1, 2 and 3, and for day 1 corrected by the average correction method and by the variance correction method

Urinary iodine concentration distributions (µg/L)
Raw data for day 1Raw data for day 2Raw data for day 3By the average correction methodBy the variance correction method
PercentileAverage of days 1, 2Average of days 1, 2 and 3Day 1 corrected using 2 replicatesDay 1 corrected using 3 replicates
Fi0.7420.829
 5th56.560.661.479.692.5114.1112.2
10th76.083.585.7100.4111.0128.4127.3
25th122.6127.2130.0138.0146.4155.4156.3
50th183.1184.8189.2188.5192.6192.3194.8
75th262.0259.3261.0253.4250.3239.2241.6
95th414.8406.1418.2382.5362.8330.6335.0
  • Fi=Sb/(Sb+Sw/di), where Sb is the SD between subjects, Sw is the SD within subjects, and di is the number of observations available for each subject.