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Theory and Method

Finite-Sample Properties of Some Old and Some New Estimators of a Common Odds Ratio from Multiple 2 × 2 Tables

Walter W. Hauck Northwestern University Cancer Center, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA; Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School
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Sharon Anderson Hines Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Veteran's Administration Hospital, Hines, IL, 60141, USA; Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, 60680, USA
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Francis J. Leahy III Intel Corporation, 3065 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, USA
Pages 145-152 | Received 01 Nov 1979, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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