Estimation of k for the poly-k test with application to animal carcinogenicity studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2619-2636

  Moon, Hojin ^a   Ahn, Hongshik ^b   Kodell, Ralph L ^a   Lee, Jack ^c  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Dose response; Sacrifice; Trend test; Tumour incidence rate

Indexed keywords

N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR SYSTEM; LIVER CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; TURNOVER TIME; WEIGHT;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041565372     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1444     Document Type: Article

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