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. 1981 Jan 3;282(6257):44–46. doi: 10.1136/bmj.282.6257.44

Statistics and ethics in medical research. VIII-Improving the quality of statistics in medical journals.

D G Altman
PMCID: PMC1503760  PMID: 6778564

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