Grand challenge: Understanding survival paradoxes in epidemiology

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Efird, Jimmy T ^a   O'Neal, Wesley T ^a   Kennedy, Whitney L ^a   Kypson, Alan P ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84959454937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00003     Document Type: Article

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