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Is the One-Half Continuity Correction Used Once or Twice to Derive a Well-Known Approximate Sample Size Formula to Compare Two Independent Binomial Distributions?

Bruce Levin Division of Biostatistics, Columbia School of Public Health, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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Xun Chen Ph.D. Division of Biostatistics, Columbia School of Public Health, New York, NY, 10032, USA
Pages 62-66 | Received 01 Jul 1997, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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