Validation of decompression procedures based on detection of venous gas bubbles: A bayesian approach

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-99

  Eftedal, Olav S ^a   Tjelmeland, Haakon ^b   Brubakk, Alf O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Decompression sickness; Decompression tables; Diving; Ultrasound; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; GAS EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VEINS;

EID: 33846820173     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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