When t-tests or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests won't do

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 128-133

  McElduff, Fiona ^a   Cortina Borja, Mario ^a   Chan, Shun Kai ^a   Wade, Angie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Negative binomial; Poisson; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956860190     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: 15221229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00017.2010     Document Type: Article

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