Statistical analysis of intraclass correlations from multiple samples with applications to arterial blood pressure data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1497-1514

  Mian, I U H ^a   Shoukri, M M ^b  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0030801576     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970715)16:13<1497::AID-SIM569>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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