Comparing two small samples with an unstable, treatment-independent baseline

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-178

  Janušonis, Skirmantas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ANCOVA; Developmental neurobiology; Exact tests; Mann Whitney test; Non parametric tests; Normalization; Small samples; Wilcoxon rank sum test

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROSCIENCES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 63049104212     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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