Ethics and statistical reform: Lessons from medicine

Handbook of Ethics in Quantitative Methodology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 445-462

  Fidler, Fiona ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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