Novel Statistical Approaches for Non-Normal Censored Immunological Data: Analysis of Cytokine and Gene Expression Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ballenberger, Nikolaus ^a   Lluis, Anna ^a   von Mutius, Erika ^a   Illi, Sabina ^a   Schaub, Bianca ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANK SUM TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84868130377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046423     Document Type: Article

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