Exploring a mixture of distributions using Minitab

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-232

  Osman, Magued I ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Identifiability of mixture; Minitab; Mixture of distributions; Teaching statistics; Unimodality Hazard function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030743988     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(97)00019-X     Document Type: Article

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