Regression models for identifying noise sources in magnetic resonance images

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 623-637

  Zhu, Hongtu ^a   Li, Yimei ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Shi, Xiaoyan ^a   An, Hongyu ^a   Chen, Yashen ^a   Gao, Wei ^a   Lin, Weili ^a   Rowe, Daniel B ^b   Peterson, Bradley S ^c  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Goodness of fit statistic; Influence measures; Normal approximation; Rician regression; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549116371     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0029     Document Type: Article

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