Statistical power and design of focused clustering studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-9, 1996, Pages 765-782

  Waller, Lance A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029964029     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960415)15:7/9<765::aid-sim248>3.0.co;2-n     Document Type: Conference Paper

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