Finite Mixture Models in Assessing Anti-thyroglobulin Antibody Positivity as a Marker of Chronic Thyroiditis
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Biometrics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2185-6494,0918-4430
DOI: 10.5691/jjb.28.79