Patterns of medicinal plant use: An examination of the Ecuadorian Shuar medicinal flora using contingency table and binomial analyses

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 422-430

  Bennett, Bradley C ^a   Husby, Chad E ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial analysis; Linear regression; Medicinal plants use patterns; Residual analysis; Shuar

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT TAXONOMY;

ECUADOR; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICINE, HERBAL; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 40249086500     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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