On the importance of statistics in breath analysis - Hope or curse?

Journal of Breath Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Eckel, Sandrah P ^a   Baumbach, Jan ^b   Hauschild, Anne Christin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

breath analysis; exhaled nitric oxide; machine learning; robustness; statistics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITRIC OXIDE;

BREATH ANALYSIS; METABOLOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ARTICLE; EXHALATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BREATH TESTS; EXHALATION; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84899533963     PISSN: 17527155     EISSN: 17527163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1752-7155/8/1/012001     Document Type: Review

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