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Commentary

Testing the Equality of Two Independent Binomial Proportions

Roderick J. A. Little Department of Biomathematics, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA
Pages 283-288 | Received 01 Nov 1988, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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