Design and analysis of serial limiting dilution assays with small sample sizes

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 13-29

  MacKen, Catherine ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Serial limiting dilution assay; Single hit poisson model; Small sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DILUTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0032899688     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(98)00133-1     Document Type: Article

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