Teaching experimental design to biologists

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Zolman, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyzing and interpreting data; Biostatistics; Designing experiments; Experimental flaws; Peer reviewing; Writing abstracts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; TEACHING;

EID: 0033388045     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advances.1999.277.6.s111     Document Type: Article

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