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Letter to the Editor: The merits of matching in community intervention trials: a cautionary tale by N. Klar and A. Donner, Statistics in Medicine, 16, 1753–1764 (1997)

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 57 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0277-6715
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19980930)17:18<2149::aid-sim897>3.0.co;2-x

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