A Clinically Dangerous Flaw in Reporting Statistical Significance
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The reporting of statistical significance in scientific journals
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/502655