p-Values for postmortem intervals from arthropod succession data

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-68

  LaMotte, Lynn Roy ^a   Wells, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Fisher's exact test; Forensic entomology; Likelihood ratio statistic; Multinomial outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043286353     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400631     Document Type: Article

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