A freely available statistical program for testing associations

M.D. Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 327-330

  Lee, Yann Jinn ^c   Chen, Ming Ren ^c   Chang, Wen Cheng ^c   Lo, Fu Sung ^a   Huang, Fu Yuan ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCOMPUTER; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCOMPUTERS; RISK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032160531     PISSN: 07246811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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