Clinical as well as statistical knowledge is needed when determining how subfertility trials are analysed

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2495-2496

  Dickey, Richard P ^a,b  

^a Fertility Institute of New Orleans   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ABORTION; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ERROR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347503503     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh019     Document Type: Editorial

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