Variability measures of positive random variables

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kostal, Lubomir ^a   Lansky, Petr ^a   Pokora, Ondrej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENTROPY; GAMMA RHYTHM; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 79960676614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021998     Document Type: Article

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