Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 916-931

  Pruessner, Jens C ^a   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^b   Meinlschmid, Gunther ^c   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Changes over time; Repeated hormone measures; Total concentrations

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHRONOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0041698274     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00108-7     Document Type: Article

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