Statistical motor unit number estimation assuming a binomial distribution

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 182-191

  Blok, Joleen H ^a,b   Visser, Gerhard H ^a   De Graaf, Sándor ^a   Zwarts, Machiel J ^b,c   Stegeman, Dick F ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Instituut voor Fundamentele en Klinische Bewegingswetenschappen Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternation; Binomial; Motor unit number estimation; Poisson; Statistical method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SARCOMERE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; PILOT PROJECTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SARCOMERES;

EID: 13244273395     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20256     Document Type: Article

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