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Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-415

  Bookstein, F L ^a   Sampson, P D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Confounds; Dose response; Model assumptions; Peer review; Significance testing

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COVARIANCE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOLERA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS; TERATOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 20444410839     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2005.01.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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