Analysis of histamine release assays using the Bootstrap

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 296, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 103-114

  Coberly, William A ^a   Price III, Joseph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Computer intensive; Histamine release; Monte Carlo; Nonparametric

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION; HISTAMINE RELEASE; MAST CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; MAST CELLS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 12944326296     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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