A pilot study on the frequency structure of histological neoplasm diagnoses in rats

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 236, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 427-437

  Izsák, János ^a  

^a Berzsenyi College   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Diversity of diagnoses; Lognormal; Logseries; Neoplasms; Zipf Mandelbrot

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCALE UP; TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RODENT DISEASES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 23744493435     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.03.024     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. J. Aitchison, and J.A. Brown The Lognormal Distribution 1957 Cambridge University Press Cambridge, MA
2. E. Almaas, B. Kovács, T. Vicsek, Z.N. Oltvai, and A.L. Barabási Global organization of metabolic fluxes in the bacterium Escherichia coli Nature 427 2004 839 843
3. B.C. Arnold Pareto Distributions 1983 International Co-operative Publishing House Fairland, MD, USA (Chapter 1-4)
4. M. Barangé, and B. Campos Models of species abundance: a critique of and an alternative to the dynamics model Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 69 1991 293 298
5. E. Bomhard Frequency of spontaneous tumours in NMRI mice in 21-month studies Exp. Toxicol. Pathol. 45 1993 269 289
6. E. Bomhard, and M. Rinke Frequency of spontaneous tumours in Wistar rats in 2-year studies Exp. Toxicol. Pathol. 46 1994 17 29
7. D.E. Clark, B.M. Cushing, and C.E. Bredenberg Monitoring hospital trauma mortality using statistical process control methods J. Am. Coll. Surg. 186 1998 630 635
8. E.L. Crow, and K. Shimizu Lognormal Distributions. Theory and Applications 1988 Marcel Dekker New York and Basel
9. S. Engen, and R. Lande Population dynamic models generating the lognormal species abundance distribution Math. Biosci. 132 1996 169 183
10. S. Engen, and R. Lande Population dynamic models generating species abundance distributions of the gamma type J. Theor. Biol. 178 1996 325 331
11. R.A. Fisher, A.S. Corbet, and C.B. Williams The relation between the number of species and the number of individuals in a random sample of an animal population J. Anim. Ecol. 12 1943 42 58
12. S. Frontier Diversity and structure in aquatic ecosystems Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 23 1985 253 312
13. S. Frontier Applications of fractal theory to ecology S. Frontier Developments in Numerical Ecology 1987 Springer New York and Heidelberg 335 378
14. J.F. Grassle, and N.J. Maciolek Deep-sea species richness: regional and local diversity estimates from quantitative bottom samples Amer. Nat. 139 1992 313 341
15. G. Herdan The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance 1966 Springer Berlin-Heidelberg-New York pp. 115-120
16. W.W. Höpker Zur Quantifizierung selections-bedingter Gruppenunterschiede in der Epidemiologie Methods Inf. Med. 14 1975 144 149
17. R.G. Hughes Theories and models of species abundance Amer. Nat. 128 1986 879 899
18. P.R. Hunter, and J. Izsák A latitudinal diversity gradient in virus infections in humans in England and Wales Int. J. Epidemiol. 22 1993 144 148
19. S.M. Hurlbert The nonconcept of species diversity: a critique and alternative parameters Ecology 52 1971 577 586
20. J. Izsák Distribution of the parameters of the Gompertz and Wiebull functions fitted to the death rates Anthropol. Közl. (Budapest) 27 1983 129 137
21. J. Izsák Measuring the secular changes of concentration of death causes Genus 42 1986 197 208
22. J. Izsák Hiding mechanisms in populations and the entropy maximum of death causes: are they related? Abs. Bot. (Budapest) 15 1991 37 42
23. J. Izsák Comparative analysis of death cause diversity curves in various countries Genus 49 1993 67 77
24. J. Izsák Applying the jackknife method to significance tests of diagnostic diversity Methods Inf. Med. 33 1994 214 219
25. J. Izsák Sensitivity profiles of diversity indices Biometric. J. 38 1996 921 930
26. J. Izsák Diversity 2.1: New version of a program package for calculating diversity and related statistics Community Ecol. 4 2003 237 239
27. J. Izsák, and P.R. Hunter Serotype abundance distributions in reports of Salmonella incidents in domestic livestock as an indicator of the population biology of Salmonella infections Funct. Ecol. 6 1991 154 159
28. J. Izsák, and P. Juhász-Nagy Studies of lognormality on mortality statistics Biometric. J. 24 1982 731 741
29. J. Izsák, and L. Papp Numerical properties of jackknifed diversity indices tested on loose sets of coenological samples (Diptera, Drosophilidae) Coenoses 9 1994 59 67
30. J. Izsák, and L. Papp Sensitivity of diversity indices: a study of dipterous assemblages Community Ecol. 3 2002 79 86
31. R.A. Kempton A generalized form of Fisher's logarithmic series Biometrika 62 1975 29 38
32. R BR rat. Charles River Laboratories, pp. 1-36.
33. N.M. Luscombe, J. Qian, Z. Zhang, T. Johnson, and M. Gerstein The dominance of the population by a selected few: power-law behaviour applies to a wide variety of genomic properties Genome Biol. 3 8 2002 research 0040.1-0040.7
34. A.E. Magurran Ecological Diversity and Its Measurement 1988 Croom Helm London-Sydney (Chapter 2)
35. R. May Patterns of species abundance and diversity M.L. Cody J.M. Diamond Ecology and Evolution of Communities 1975 Belknap Press, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 81 120
36. Ch.T. Meadow, J. Wang, and M. Stamboulie An analysis of Zipf - Mandelbrot language measures and their application to artificial languages J. Inform. Sci. 19 1993 247 258
37. G.P. Patil, and C. Tailie An overview of diversity J.F. Grassle G.P. Patil W. Smith C. Tailie Ecological Diversity in Theory and Practice 1979 International Co-operative Publishing House Fairland, MD 3 27
38. E.C. Pielou Ecological Diversity 1975 Wiley New York (Chapter 3)
39. J.R.C. Piqueira, L.H. Monteiro, T.M.C. De Magalhães, R.T. Ramos, R.B. Sassi, and E.G. Cruz Zipf's law organizes a psychiatric ward J. Theor. Biol. 198 1999 439 443
40. R. Rousseau Lack of standardization in informetric research. Comments on "Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics" by Matthias Sutter and Martin G. Kocher Scientometrics 55 2002 317 327
41. P.O. Seglen The skewness of science J. Am. Soc. Inform. Sci. 43 1992 628 638
42. W. Smith, and J.F. Grassle Sampling properties of a family of diversity measures Biometrics 33 1977 283 292
43. W. Souma Universal structure of the personal income distribution Fractals 9 2001 463 470
44. J. Tague Ranks and sizes: some complementarities and contrasts J. Inform. Sci. 16 1990 29 35
45. W. Ulrich Models of relative abundance distributions I: model fitting by stochastic models Pol. J. Ecol. 49 2001 145 157
46. B. Vidondo, Y.T. Prairie, J.M. Blanco, and C.M. Duarte Some aspects of the analysis of size spectra in aquatic ecology Limnol. Oceanogr. 42 1997 184 192
47. R. Wagner-Döbler The frequency distribution of legal decision citations in the German jurisdiction Scientometrics 29 1994 15 26
48. Whittaker, R.H., 1969. Evolution of Diversity in Plant Communities. In: Woodwell, G.M., Smith, H.H. (Eds.), Diversity and Stability in Ecological Systems. Brookhaven Symposium Biology, vol. 22, US Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA, pp. 178-195.
49. C.B. Williams Patterns in the Balance of Nature 1964 Academic Press London-New York (Chapter 3)
50. S. Zahl Jackknifing an index of diversity Ecology 58 1977 907 913