Minimizing animal numbers: The variable-criteria sequential stopping rule

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 206-218

  Fitts, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL NUMBER; CRITERION VARIABLE; EFFECT SIZE; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENTIAL STOPPING RULE; STUDENT T TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 80755146598     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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