Statistical tests for measures of colocalization in biological microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 295-302

  Mcdonald, John H ^a   Dunn, Kenneth W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colocalization; Pearson's correlation coefficient; Student's t test

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIOLOGICAL MICROSCOPY; COEFFICIENT VALUES; COLOCALIZATION; COLOCALIZATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGES; MANDERS; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; STUDENT'S T TESTS;

STUDENTS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MANDERS CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

COLOCALIZATION; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; STUDENT'S T-TEST;

CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84887610189     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12093     Document Type: Article

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