Does a serial dilution experiment's model agree with its outcome?

Model Assisted Statistics and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-215

  Blodgett, Robert J ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Improb; Order statistics; Rarity index

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649587373     PISSN: 15741699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/MAS-2010-0157     Document Type: Article

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