Estimating times of surgeries with two component procedures comparison of the lognormal and normal models

Anesthesiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 232-240

  Strum, David P ^a   May, Jerrold H ^b   Sampson, Allan R ^d   Vargas, Luis G ^c   Spangler, William E ^e  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Operations ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY THEORY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037221741     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200301000-00035     Document Type: Article

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