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. 1997 Jul;87(7):1092–1095. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.7.1092

Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that.

M E Northridge, B Levin, M Feinleib, M W Susser
PMCID: PMC1380876  PMID: 9254553

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