Visualization of significant differences in somatotopic maps: A distributed t-test

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-24

  Brown, Paul B ^a   Millecchia, Ronald ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Somatotopy; Spinal cord; T test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL POPULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030660656     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)00103-9     Document Type: Article

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