Biostatistical approaches to reducing the number of animals used in biomedical research

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-163

  Puopolo, Maria ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control group; Experimental design; Experimental variability; Reduction; Response variable; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; CALCULATION; CONTROL GROUP; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PLANNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 9444255783     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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