Comparing several means of dependent populations of count: a parametric robust approach

Tsung-Shan Tsou1, Chien-Hung Chen

  • 1Institute of Statistics, Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan. tsou@mx.stat.ncu.edu.tw

Statistics in Medicine
|August 11, 2007
PubMed

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