A confidence interval for the reaction index

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 252-253

  Kuss, Oliver ^a   Dickel, Heinrich ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Contact allergy; Patch testing; Reaction index

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REACTION INDEX; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; HUMANS; PATCH TESTS;

EID: 77950480975     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01724.x     Document Type: Article

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