AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF THE RELIABILITY OF BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS USING DIFFERENT THERMOMETERS BY NPC TEST METHOD

Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro (Italy), Livio Corain (Italy), Linda Di Teodoro (Italy), Samuela Franceschini (USA) and Pasqualino Spinosi (Italy)

Received September 24, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: body temperature, digital and mercury thermometer, nonparametric statistical methods, permutation tests.