A statistical assessment of differences and equivalences between genetically modified and reference plant varieties

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  van der Voet, Hilko ^a   Perry, Joe N ^b   Amzal, Billy ^c   Paoletti, Claudia ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Oaklands Barn   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL DATA; DATA SETS; EQUIVALENCE TESTING; EQUIVALENCE TESTS; FIELD STUDIES; FIELD TRIAL; GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; NATURAL VARIATION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL COMPUTATIONS;

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS; RATING; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY TESTING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MAIZE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ZEA MAYS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79951552118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-11-15     Document Type: Article

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