Interactive Mathematics for Laboratory Medicine

The purpose of this book is to facilitate an introduction to calculations in clinical laboratory science and laboratory medicine. Many trainees struggle with calculations required for an understanding of some of the processes in the clinical laboratory. This book is unique in many aspects as it contains inbuilt calculator widgets which can be called up  when the reader is working through the calculations. These widgets can also be used when the reader is working through calculations  from other books. 

There are numerous review questions scattered through the chapters and there are explanatory presentations and movies of the calculations with answers. Ideally, the reader should try to work through each calculation manually before calling up the review answer or looking at the explanation. The calculator widgets should only be used once the reader has grasped the fundamental concepts. In order to generate the explanatory media, I used a tablet and drawing pen to mimic a real-time effect of a teacher writing out the answer on the board. This is another unique feature of this book. The book is meant to be interactive and provide a stimulating medium to learn clinical laboratory mathematics, in contrast to the traditional 2-dimensional book. The book can be previewed on  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdyWzj96W8Q Chapter Headings: 1. Basic calculations 2. Basic descriptive statistics 3. Receiver-operator curves and diagnostic tests 4. Spectrophotometry 5. Calculations in genetics 6. Using Chi-squared tests 7. Half-life calculations 8. Pharmacokinetic equations 9. Bayes' Theorem 10. Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive values 11. Z-scores 12. Reference change values 13. Uncertainty of measurement 14. Comparison of two methods. An Android/Windows version s available on www.inktera.com