Why most published research findings are false: Author's reply to Goodman and Greenland [7]

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1132-1133

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BAYES THEOREM; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; RISK; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; HUMAN; NOTE; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34347215906     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040215     Document Type: Letter

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