Application of advanced statistics in ophthalmology

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6059-6065

  Fan, Qiao ^a   Teo, Yik Ying ^a,b   Saw, Seang Mei ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EYE DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; FRAILTY MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARGINAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE DISEASES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

EID: 80051540129     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-7108     Document Type: Article

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