Multivariate statistical interpretation of laboratory clinical data

Central European Journal of Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-334

  Papaioannou, Agelos ^a   Simeonov, Vasili ^b   Plageras, Panagiotis ^a   Dovriki, Eleni ^a   Spanos, Thomas ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biochemical tests; Clinical analysis; Intelligent data analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE VALIDITY;

EID: 34347386435     PISSN: 18951058     EISSN: 16443640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11536-007-0035-1     Document Type: Article

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