Bayesian incidence analysis of animal tumorigenicity data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-141

  Dunson, D B ^a   Dinse, G E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Carcinogenicity studies; Gibbs sampling; Historical controls; Sacrifices; Survival adjustment; Tumour lethality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648162     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00224     Document Type: Article

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