On counting and counting errors

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 447, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Guillery, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell counts; Optical disector; Quantitative histology; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CELL COUNT; ERROR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTOMY; NEUROANATOMY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0037140798     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10221     Document Type: Review

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