Guidelines for the design and statistical analysis of experiments using laboratory animals

ILAR Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 244-257

  Festing, Michael F W ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal experiments; Experimental design; Statistics; Variation

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STUDENT T TEST; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036374477     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.43.4.244     Document Type: Article

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