Analysis of elemental concentration censored distributions in breast malignant and breast benign neoplasm tissues

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 6-7 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 695-701

  Kubala Kukus A ^a,b   Banas D ^a,b   Braziewicz, J ^a,b   Gozdz S ^b   Majewska, U ^a,b   Pajek, M ^a  

^a JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Holycross Cancer Centre   (Poland)

Author keywords

Kaplan Meier estimator; Log rank test; Random left censoring; Trace elements; X ray fluorescence (XRF, TXRF) methods

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLUORESCENCE; REFLECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATOR; LOG-RANK TEST; RANDOM LEFT-CENSORING; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

TUMORS;

EID: 34547561560     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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