Tacit premises and assumptions in anti-doping research

Performance Enhancement and Health

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 144-152

  Pitsch, Werner ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti doping; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity; Specificity; Stakeholder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908032335     PISSN: 22112669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peh.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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