Methodological issues in the analysis of human sperm concentration data

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-73

  Berman, Nancy G ^a   Wang, Christina ^a   Paulsen, C Alvin ^b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

log transformation; multiple sampling; Sperm concentration; statistical power; variation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0029936763     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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