Authors, ghosts, damned lies, and statisticians

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 0005-0006

  Wager, Elizabeth ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; DATA ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SHORT SURVEY; ETHICS; HUMAN; NOTE; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 33846706252     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040034     Document Type: Short Survey

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