Estimating the number of motor units using random sums with independently thinned terms

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-41

  Müller, Samuel ^a   Conforto, Adriana Bastos ^b   Z'Graggen, Werner J ^c   Kaelin Lang, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analysis of count data; General binomial distribution; Motor unit number estimation

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF COUNT DATA; ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY; GENERAL BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATION;

MUSCLE;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MUSCLE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 33745865174     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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