Review: Analysis of parasite and other skewed counts

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 684-693

  Alexander, Neal ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non parametric; Parasitology; Regression analysis; Statistical data analysis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; MEDICINE; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK;

CONFUSION; DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; HOOKWORM; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITES; PARASITOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84861674991     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.02987.x     Document Type: Review

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