Assessing a vector of clinical observations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3383-3414

  Eaton, Morris L ^a   Muirhead, Robb J ^b   Pickering, Eve H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical observation vectors; Decision theory; Incoherence (Dutch book); Invariance; Optimality; Prediction; Tolerance regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745067785     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.02.019     Document Type: Article

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