Analysis of variance of communication latencies in anesthesia: Comparing means of multiple log-normal distributions

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 888-896

  Ledolter, Johannes ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^b   Epstein, Richard H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053312351     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318227518f     Document Type: Article

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