A Unified Framework for Benchmark Dose Estimation Applied to Mixed Models and Model Averaging

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-90

  Ritz, Christian ^a   Gerhard, Daniel ^b   Hothorn, Ludwig A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additional risk; Cytotoxicity; Dose response modeling; Fractional polynomials; Plate variation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOSE RESPONSE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 84874331187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19466315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19466315.2012.757559     Document Type: Article

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