Confidence interval based parameter estimation-a new SOCR applet and activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Christou, Nicolas ^a   Dinov, Ivo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNET; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIANCE; WEB BROWSER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79957800682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019178     Document Type: Article

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