The future of biostatistics: Expecting the unexpected

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2773-2784

  Van Houwelingen, Hans C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030723610     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971230)16:24<2773::AID-SIM761>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Conference Paper

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