Can grimace scales estimate the pain status in horses and mice? A statistical approach to identify a classifier

Emanuela Dalla Costa; Riccardo Pascuzzo; Matthew C. Leach; Francesca Dai; Dirk Lebelt; Simone Vantini; Michela Minero

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200339

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Can grimace scales estimate the pain status in horses and mice? A statistical approach to identify a classifier

Emanuela Dalla Costa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: emanuela.dallacosta@unimi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5037-3759

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Riccardo Pascuzzo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOX Laboratory for Modelling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6555-1784

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Matthew C. Leach ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Newcastle University, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Francesca Dai,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Dirk Lebelt,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Equine Research & Consulting, Inca, Spain
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Simone Vantini,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOX Laboratory for Modelling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8255-5306

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Michela Minero

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Can grimace scales estimate the pain status in horses and mice? A statistical approach to identify a classifier

Emanuela Dalla Costa,
Riccardo Pascuzzo,
Matthew C. Leach,
Francesca Dai,
Dirk Lebelt,
Simone Vantini,
Michela Minero

Published: August 1, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200339

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