Do we need to examine the quantitative data obtained from toxicity studies for both normality and homogeneity of variance?

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-52

  Kobayashi, Katsumi ^a   Pillai, K Sadasivan ^b   Sakuratani, Yuki ^a   Suzuki, Masaya ^c   Jie, Wang ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVALUATION   (Japan)

^b Toxicology New Drug Discovery   (India)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d SHENYANG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Homogeneity of variance; Normal distribution; Normality; Shapiro Wilk test; Toxicity study

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

HEMATOLOGY; HOMOGENEITY; TESTING METHOD; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38849098964     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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