Mutations and infinity: Improved statistical methods for estimating spontaneous rates

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 90-99

  Nádas, Arthur ^a   Goncharova, Ekaterina I ^a   Rossman, Toby G ^a  

^a Kaplan Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Mathematical modeling; Mutagenesis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; MUTATION; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STATISTICS;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LURIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029972179     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1996)28:2<90::AID-EM4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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