Characteristics of quantitative data in toxicity rodents -Questioning the usefulness of bartlett's test for homogeneity of variance to introduce a rank test

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-48

  Kobayashi, Katsumi ^c   Kitajima, Shogo ^a   Miura, Daisaku ^a   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohori, Kaneo ^b   Takeuchi, Hiroichi ^c   Takasaki, Kohei ^d  

^a Biosafety Research Center   (Japan)

^b Shizuoka Sangyo University   (Japan)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bartlett's test; Homogeneity of variance; Rodents; Statistical analysis; Toxicity study

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032972291     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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