Efficient designs for animal: Carcinogenicity experiments

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1275-1287

  Ahn, Hongshik ^a   Zhu, Wei ^a   Yang, Joonseok ^a,c   Kodell, Ralph L ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Financial Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Power; Trend Test; Tumor Incidence Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544292961     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832158     Document Type: Article

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