Our main sources for the theoretical background for this project are:
Immunoassay: A Practical Guide (especially, chapter 8) (Law et al. 2005)
GraphPad Prism: Principles of Curve Fitting. Based on Motulsky and Christopoulos (2003) with updates.
The Immunoassay Handbook: Theory and Applications of Ligand Binding (especially, chapter 3.6) (Dunn and Wild 2013)
Statistical Tools for Nonlinear Regression (Huet et al. 2004)
Abbott Learning Guide: Clinical Chemistry. Nice overview, but mostly for users of tests, not developers.
“Guidelines for immunoassay data processing” (Dudley et al. 1985 open access)
“Calibration and assay development using the four-parameter logistic model” (O’Connell, Belanger, and Haaland 1993)
“Variances are not always nuisance parameters” (Carroll 2003)
“Appropriate Calibration Curve Fitting in Ligand Binding Assays” (Findlay and Dillard 2007 open access)
“Advances in validation, risk and uncertainty assessment of bioanalytical methods” (Rozet et al. 2011)
“Measurement Procedure Comparison and Bias Estimation Using Patient Samples; Approved Guideline—Third Edition (EP05-A3)” (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) 2014 view sample)
Wild and Dunn, chapter 3.6 (2013)
Bland, J Martin, and Douglas G Altman. 1999. “Measuring agreement in method comparison studies.” Statistical Methods in Medical Research 8 (2): 135–60. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3360667\&tool=pmcentrez\&rendertype=abstract.
Carroll, Raymond J. 2003. “Variances are not always nuisance parameters.” Biometrics 59 (2): 211–20. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12926705.
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). 2014. Measurement Procedure Comparison and Bias Estimation Using Patient Samples; Approved Guideline—Third Edition (EP05-A3). CLSI Documents EP05-A3. Pennsylvania: Clinical; Laboratory Standards Institute.
Dudley, R A, P Edwards, R P Ekins, D J Finney, I G McKenzie, G M Raab, D Rodbard, and R P Rodgers. 1985. “Guidelines for immunoassay data processing.” Clinical Chemistry 31 (8): 1264–71. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3893796.
Dunn, John R, and David Wild. 2013. “Calibration Curve Fitting.” In The Immunoassay Handbook, 4th ed., 323–37. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097037-0.00013-0.
Findlay, John W A, and Robert F Dillard. 2007. “Appropriate Calibration Curve Fitting in Ligand Binding Assays.” AAPS Journal 9 (2): 260–67. doi:10.1208/aapsj0902029.
Huet, S, A Bouvier, M-A Poursat, and E Jolivet. 2004. Statistical Tools for Nonlinear Regression: A Practical Guide with S-PLUS and R Examples. 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Law, Brian, Clive G Copley, Robert A Biddlecombe, Michael J Warwick, Michael D Malone, and William J Jenner. 2005. Immunoassay: A Practical Guide. Edited by Brian Law. e-book. Taylor & Francis.
Motulsky, Harvey, and Arthur Christopoulos. 2003. Fitting Models to Biological Data using Linear and Nonlinear Regression. GraphPad Software Inc., San Diego CA. www.graphpad.com.
O’Connell, M.a., B.a. Belanger, and P.D. Haaland. 1993. “Calibration and assay development using the four-parameter logistic model.” Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 20 (2): 97–114. doi:10.1016/0169-7439(93)80008-6.
Rozet, E, R D Marini, E Ziemons, B Boulanger, and Ph Hubert. 2011. “Advances in validation, risk and uncertainty assessment of bioanalytical methods.” Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 55 (4). Elsevier B.V.: 848–58. doi:10.1016/j.jpba.2010.12.018.