Reporting of prognostic studies of tumour markers: a review of published articles in relation to REMARK guidelines.

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Published in Br J Cancer on December 08, 2009

Authors

S Mallett1, A Timmer, W Sauerbrei, D G Altman

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK. susan.mallett@csm.ox.ac.uk

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