Statistics in brief: How to assess bias in clinical studies?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1794-1796

  Lambert, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION BIAS; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFOUNDING BIAS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 79959540999     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1538-7     Document Type: Article

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