Statistics and the Issue of Animal Numbers in Research

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 54-59

  Khamis, Harry J ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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