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Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to assay workflows and statistical process control.
Biological Assay Package
Use the Biological Assay Package for potency analysis of biological assays. The add-on comes equipped with a highly flexible test system to qualify your assay. You can perform combination calculations to obtain the reportable value from independent assay runs and use historic assay data to develop equivalence margins.
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Test: Sum of squares regression

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Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to assay workflows and statistical process control.
- Biological Assay Package
  Use the Biological Assay Package for potency analysis of biological assays. The add-on comes equipped with a highly flexible test system to qualify your assay. You can perform combination calculations to obtain the reportable value from independent assay runs and use historic assay data to develop equivalence margins.
  - Installation
    Find details on the system requirements for the Biological Assay Package add-on and the steps to install the add-on in your environment.
  - Basic bioassay protocol
    Use Basic bioassay protocol documents to set up a workflow for producing reportable values from multiple independent assay runs. Organize complex methods, retest scenarios, and report several products in a single assay.
  - Combination of assay results
    Use Combination of assay results documents to perform combination calculations for independent assay runs, thus obtaining reportable values for the potency.
  - Equivalence margin development
    Use Equivalence margin development documents to develop and verify test systems based on historic assays and apply these test systems in new development of quantitative response assays.
  - Quantitative response assays
    Use Quantitative response assay documents to calculate the potencies of test samples relative to an established standard. You can also use them to determine absolute potencies based on stock solutions or raw materials.
  - Test system definition
    Use Test system definition documents of the Biological Assay Package to define a collection of suitability tests and corresponding margins for Quantitative response assay documents.
  - Use case: Automate a bioassay workflow
    For some biological assays, determining relative potency within a single run is not sufficient. In these cases, you perform multiple individual assay runs and then combine the resulting data to obtain a more reliable final potency estimate. The challenge is to combine these individual results efficiently and reproducibly, particularly in regulated environments or when preparing for automated workflows.
  - Reference information
    Find reference information on the document types of the Biological Assay Package add-on.
    - Basic bioassay protocol documents
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    - Combination of assay results documents
      Find details on the document structure of Combination of assay results and access reference information on particular document elements.
    - Equivalence margin development documents
      Find details on the document structure of Equivalence margin development and access reference information on particular document elements.
    - Quantitative response assay documents
      Find details on the document structure of Quantitative response assay and access reference information on particular document elements.
    - Test system definition documents
      Find details on the document structure of Test system definition and access reference information on particular document elements.
    - Document elements
      Find reference information on the document elements in the document types of the Biological Assay Package add-on.
    - Digest of document properties for data aggregation
      Find a list of property keys available for data aggregation in the Biological Assay Package add-on.
- bioMérieux Endotoxin Detection Assay Package
  Use the bioMérieux Endotoxin Detection Assay Package add-on to perform endotoxin testing based on recombinant factor C (rFC), a synthetic alternative to naturally sourced reagents derived from horseshoe crabs, as offered by the bioMérieux company.
- Control Chart Package
  The Control Chart Package allows sophisticated statistical process control (for example, by plotting Shewhart I-Charts as recommended in the USP <1010>). It provides visualization options for intervals, subcharts and sidecharts, and allows you to define colors by a secondary characteristic. You can also define rules based on events and time frames.
- Dichotomous Assay Package
  Use the Dichotomous Assay Package to analyze biological assays based on quantal (binary) responses by fitting probit or logit models to estimate the potency of your samples.
- Dose-Response Analysis Package
  The Dose-Response Analysis Package provides various biostatistical methods for immunoassays, ELISA, and more. It supports you in investigating equivalence for calibration curves, provides enhanced data processing, and options for subgroup analysis.
- Microbial Assays for Antibiotics Package
  The Microbial Assays for Antibiotics Package for PLA 3.0 is your software for assessing the potency of antibiotics. This add-on supports various methods, that is, cylinder-plate, turbidimetric, and combination of microbial assays. It enables you to closely follow the guidelines laid out in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP <81>) and the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP 4.02).
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Test: Sum of squares regression

Add one or several tests for the sum of squares regression to your assay. To add the tests as assay suitability tests, add them as children of the Assay suitability tests element. To add the tests as sample suitability tests, add them as children of the Sample suitability tests element.

Important: Test definitions are ignored without notification if you select a type of test that is not valid for the model you use or the scope you select.

To pass the test, the sum of squares regression (from the ANOVA table) has to be less than or equal to the upper margin and greater than or equal to the lower margin set in the test definition.

Note: We do not recommend this test if you have statistical or technical outliers. The number of observations should be equal across all assays, that is, assays for which you use this test and historical assays used in margin development.

Linear parallel-line, 4-parameter logistic, 5-parameter logistic, 3-parameter logistic with fixed lower asymptote, 3-parameter logistic with fixed upper asymptote, Slope ratio

The Standard sample is always included in the calculation.
'Test samples only' or 'Control samples only' without simultaneous regression: The test is computed for each Test-vs-Standard or Control-vs-Standard comparison.
'All assay elements' without simultaneous regression: The test is computed for each Test-vs-Standard and for each Control-vs-Standard comparison.

Note: With simultaneous regression (formerly called multiplex assay), all samples are regarded as one single dataset and are tested together (not as individual samples or pairwise comparisons).


Data type	Multiplicity	Usage	Default value
Node	0...unbounded	optional	none

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