Cervical mucus symptom and daily fecundability: First results from a new database

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-180

  Colombo, Bernardo ^a   Mion, Arianna ^a   Passarin, Katia ^b   Scarpa, Bruno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OVULATION DETECTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CERVIX MUCUS; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OVULATION DETECTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645741078     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0962280206sm437oa     Document Type: Article

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