Exploring extra-binomial variation in teratology data using continuous mixtures

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 490-494

  Moore, Dirk F ^a   Park, Choon Keun ^a   Smith, Woollcott ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Finite mixture; Nonparametric

Indexed keywords

BETA-BINOMIAL; CONTINUOUS MIXTURES; DISCRETE DATA; EXPOSED TO; FINITE MIXTURES; MALE MOUSE; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL RESPONSE; NONPARAMETRICS; STATISTICAL WORKS;

MIXING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LETHALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION HAZARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERATOLOGY;

EID: 0035020108     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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