Assessment of the mean-value of 17-hydroxypregnenolone in the umbilical blood of newborns by the exploratory analysis of biochemical data

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-197

  Meloun, Milan ^a   Hill, Martin ^b   Militký, Jiří ^c   Kupka, Karel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

^d Trilobyte Statistical Software Ltd   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Box Cox transformation; Chemometrics; Exploratory data analysis; Homogeneity test; Independence test; Normality test; Power transformation; Robust estimates

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; PATIENT MONITORING;

BIOCHEMICAL DATA;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

17 HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037358354     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(02)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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