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Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-162

  Sidik, Kurex ^a   Jonkman, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LETTER; META ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIANCE;

EID: 0346656876     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1729     Document Type: Letter

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