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Methodological Paper

The importance of effect sizes

Sil AartsDepartment of Allied Health Professions, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Marjan van den AkkerDepartment of Family Practice, School for Public Health and Primary Care: Caphri, Maastricht University, The Netherlands;Department of Family Practice, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Bjorn WinkensDepartment of Methodology and Statistics, School for Public Health and Primary Care: Caphri, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Pages 61-64 | Received 19 Apr 2013, Accepted 02 Jun 2013, Published online: 30 Aug 2013

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