Design of a testing strategy using non-animal based test methods: Lessons learnt from the ACuteTox project

Toxicology in Vitro

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1395-1401

  Kopp Schneider, Annette ^a   Prieto, Pilar ^b   Kinsner Ovaskainen, Agnieszka ^b   Stanzel, Sven ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification algorithm; Overfitting; Prediction error; Prediction model; Testing strategy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DATA ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TOXICITY TESTING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876704161     PISSN: 08872333     EISSN: 18793177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2012.08.016     Document Type: Article

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