Repeatability of paired counts

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3566-3577

  Alexander, Neal ^a,b   Bethony, Jeff ^b,c   Corrêa Oliveira, Rodrigo ^c   Rodrigues, Laura C ^a   Hotez, Peter ^b,d   Brooker, Simon ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d SABIN VACCINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; Hookworm; Repeatability; Square mean root

Indexed keywords

ALPHA1 INTEGRIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HOOKWORM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547546185     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2724     Document Type: Article

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