Application and investigation of a bound for outcome reporting bias

Trials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Williamson, Paula R ^a   Gamble, Carrol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLISHING; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 33947259002     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-8-9     Document Type: Article

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