The false-positive to false-negative ratio in epidemiologic studies.

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Published in Epidemiology on July 01, 2011

Authors

John P A Ioannidis1, Robert Tarone, Joseph K McLaughlin

Author Affiliations

1: Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. jioannid@stanford.edu

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