A comparison of several tests for drug synergy

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 303-327

  Wu, Minta ^a   Woolson, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additivity; Delta method; Isobologram; Monte Carlo; Power; Probit model; Significance level; Synergism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346544673     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813482     Document Type: Article

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