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Theory and Method

On the Probability of Observing Misleading Statistical Evidence

Richard Royall Department of Biostatistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
Pages 760-768 | Received 01 Aug 1997, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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