Pearls: Simpson’s Paradox—Understanding Numbers That Don’t Seem to Make Sense
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1097/corr.0000000000000939