A Look at the Rule of Three

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-139

  Jovanovic, B D ^a   Levy, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial probability; Clinical research; Safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031527873     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473947     Document Type: Article

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