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Old 10-18-2006, 04:23 PM
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Default Re: In Serious need of help.

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Originally Posted by roro
I can’t see anything that seems seriously out of line. PMgamer18 thinks my E2 may be too high, and I will suggest this to the Endo. One thing that also seems strange is the SHBG. In the table, the average SHBG for my age range is 35.5. With a standard deviation of 8.8, I’m guessing that that means the highest was 44.3 and the lowest 26.7? If that’s the case, mine seems quite low.
Just to clear up your confusion on standard deviation. This is a statistical term used to describe roughly the spread of the data ie dispersion. With all the many assumptions, what this means is that 99.7% of the SHBG data collected was withing 3 standard deviations. This would imply that if you take enough data, you would see values at 35.5 +/- 3*8.8 or 9.1 to 61.9.

Quite a large range. I am not sure what data they are basing this on, but to get an idea of the range, you need to multiply by 3 on the standard deviation.
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