Evaluating effects of exposures on embryo viability and uterine receptivity in in vitro fertilization

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 1601-1612

  Zhou, Haibo ^a   Weinberg, Clarice R ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NIDATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL VIABILITY; HUMANS; MITOTIC INDEX; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0032581585     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980730)17:14<1601::AID-SIM870>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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