Selective Reporting Biases in Cancer Prognostic Factor Studies
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1460-2105,0027-8874
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dji184