Outlying observations and missing values: How should they be handled?

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 670-678

  Ludbrook, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Box and whisker plot; Data transformation; Imputation; Percentiles; Permutation tests; Randomness; Robust methods; Scatterplot

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 41749117913     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04860.x     Document Type: Article

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