What can clinicians contribute to mutual challenges in medical statistics?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 365-369

  Feinstem, Alvan R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033120097     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00178-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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