Keep timing the tablets: Statistical analysis of pill dissolution rates

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

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-334

  Crowder, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Longitudinal data; Non linear growth curves; Pharmaceutical statistics; Random effects regression; Repeated measures; Tablet dissolution; Two stage regression models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040157916     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986091     Document Type: Article

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