Two-sample empirical likelihood ratio tests for medians in application to biomarker evaluations

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 671-689

  Yu, Jihnhee ^a   Vexler, Albert ^a   Kim, Seong Eun ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; ELISA; Non constant shift; Western blot

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355147642     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10108     Document Type: Article

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