An examination of five statistical software packages for epidemiology

American Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-280

  Oster, Robert A ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Personal computer; Statistical computing; Statistical graphics

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044447873     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480581     Document Type: Article

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