The arithmetic mean of ratio-normalized experiments overestimates the true E/C ratio

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-144

  Engström, Stefan ^a,c   Lindgren, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Statistics of ratio distributions

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION; ARITHMETIC MEAN; BIO-ELECTROMAGNETICS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAYS; FALSE NEGATIVES; FALSE POSITIVE; LITERATURE STUDIES; STATISTIC OF RATIO DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0034132499     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(200002)21:2<137::AID-BEM9>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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