Of seizure prediction, statistics, and dogs: A cautionary tail

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 250-251

  Litt, Brian ^a   Krieger, Abba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOG; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; DOGS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEIZURES;

EID: 33846452485     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000255912.43452.12     Document Type: Editorial

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