A statistical evaluation of the chemical composition of heroin samples with the view to discriminating between their possible sources

Drug Information Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 229-241

  Ekangaki, A ^a   Skopec, J ^b   Skopec, Z ^b   Wells, R J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

False positive rate; Logistic regression; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ACCURACY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRUG ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031916483     PISSN: 00928615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009286159803200131     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Shine JP, Ika RV, Ford TE. Muliivariate statistical examination of spatial and temporal patterns of heavy contamination in New Bedford harbor marine sediments. Environ Sci Technol. 1995;29:1781-1788.
2. Massart L, Kaufman L. Hierarchical nonheirarchical clustering strategy and application to classification of iron meteorites according to their trace element patterns. Analytic Chem. 1982:54:911-917.
3. Neumann H. Comparison of heroin by capillary gas chromatography in Germany. Forensic Sci Intl. 1994;69:7-16.
4. Perillo BA, Klein RF, Franzosa ES. Recent advances by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in drug signature and comparative analysis. Forensic Sci Intl. 1994;69:1-6.
5. Armitage P, Berry G. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1994.
6. Mardia KV, Kent JT, Bibby JM. Multivariate Analysis. London: Academic Press; 1979.
7. Collet D. Modelling Binary data. New York: Chapman and Hall; 1994.
8. STATA Reference Manual Release 4, Stata Press, College Station, Texas.
9. MATLAB Version 4 User's Guide. The Maths Works Inc. New Jersey: Prentice Hall; 1995.