Sister chromatid exchange data fit with a mixture of Poisson distributions

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 427, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-162

  Byers Jr , R H ^a   Shenton, L R ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chi squared; Generalized Poisson distribution; Maximum likelihood; Mixture distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING;

EID: 0345120825     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(99)00092-5     Document Type: Article

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