Statistical analyses of hellin's law

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-200

  Fellman, Johan ^a   Eriksson, Aldur W ^a  

^a Department of Genetic Epidemiology   (Finland)

Author keywords

Artificial reproduction technologies; Confidence intervals; Measures of agreements; Multiple maternities; Regression models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HELLIN LAW; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LAW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TWINS;

EID: 66249124632     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.12.2.191     Document Type: Article

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