Statistical approach for avoiding pseudoreplication and increasing power in wound-healing studies

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 442-448

  Haag, William G ^a   Abril Hörpel, Obsidiana ^a   Becquerelle, Sophie D ^a   Mertz, Patricia M ^b   Davis, Stephen C ^b  

^a Optim Sciences Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTINGENCY TABLE; NONHUMAN; POWER ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOREPLICATION; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SWINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79955734671     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2011.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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