Basic statistics for clinicians: 3. Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association.

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Published in CMAJ on February 01, 1995

Authors

R Jaeschke1, G Guyatt, H Shannon, S Walter, D Cook, N Heddle

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.

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