Experimental design for one-sided confidence intervals or hypothesis tests in binomial group testing

Communications in Biometry and Crop Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-40

  Schaarschmidt, Frank ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence limit; Experimental design; Group testing; Power; Seed testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250312535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18960782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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