1. A method for detecting a transient error in a body fluid sample taken from a patient, the method comprising: in a clinical analyzer provided with an equation representing a response curve of a sensor and for determining a concentration of an analyte in a body fluid sample, and the equation including at least one coefficient describing any one of a curvature of the response curve and a slope of the response curve, comparing the at least one coefficient to a range of coefficients, the range of coefficients including coefficients of response curves corresponding to known concentrations of the analyte; detecting a transient error in the body fluid sample based on the comparison; and wherein the comparison and the detection being performed by a processing transient error detector executing computer readable instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.