A confidence interval for the difference between two reaction indices

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 164-165

  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

DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; DISULFIRAM; FORMALDEHYDE; NICKEL SULFATE; PHENYLENEDIAMINE;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATCH TEST; REACTION INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALLERGENS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79551534151     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01826.x     Document Type: Article

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