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The tyranny of statistics in medicine: a critique of unthinking adherence to an arbitrarypvalue

✍ Scribed by Malcolm S. Mitchell; Mimi C. Yu; Theresa L. Whiteside

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 146 KB
Volume: 59
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-7004
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-010-0859-4

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