Research wranglers: Initiatives to improve reproducibility of study findings

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Schmidt, Charles W ^a  

^a NONE

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PARACETAMOL;

CHECKLIST; DATA ANALYSIS; FUNDING; GENE SILENCING; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; METHODOLOGY; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903778402     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A188     Document Type: Note

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