Using an antedependence test to analyse post-operative pain measurements

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1889-1899

  Akhtar Danesh, Noori ^a   Appleton, David R ^b  

^a JAHROM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 0034734130     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0258(20000730)19:14<1889::AID-SIM501>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Review

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