Simple table for estimating confidence interval of discrepancy frequencies in microbiological safety evaluation

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 137-139

  Lamy, Brigitte ^a,b   Delignette Muller, Marie Laure ^c   Baty, Florent ^b   Carret, Gerard ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c VETAGRO SUP   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Rare event frequency; Safety evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOSAFETY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0347360157     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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