title: The use of half-lives and associated confidence intervals in biological research.
abstract: The advantage of presenting experimental data in terms of half-life is discussed and a simple method of calculating a half-life from experimental data is described. Two methods of determining the confidence interval associated with the estimate of half-life are given and advantages and disadvantages of each method are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames 50011.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bryan
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Berry
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D006207:Half-Life; D011558:Herpesvirus 1, Suid / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006793:Houseflies / Q000382:microbiology; D012044:Regression Analysis