Sequential analyses in clinical and epidemiological research;Sequentiële analysen in klinisch en epidemiologisch onderzoek

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 146, Issue 49, 2002, Pages 2348-2352

  Van Der Tweel, I ^a   Schipper, M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0037038870     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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