Probabilistic gas and bubble dynamics models of decompression sickness occurrence in air and nitrogen-oxygen diving

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 275-292

  Gerth, W A ^a   Vann, R D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031305716     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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