Incomplete statistical information fusion and its application to clinical trials data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4772 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 89-103

  Ma, Jianbing ^a   Liu, Weiru ^a   Hunter, Anthony ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consistency analysis; Merging statistical data; Normal distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MERGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS; MEDICAL CLINICAL TRIALS; MERGING STATISTICAL DATA; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 38149118730     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75410-7_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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