Clinically useful measures of effect in binary analyses of randomized trials

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - Tập 47 Số 8 - Trang 881-889 - 1994
John C. Sinclair1, Michael B. Bracken2
1Departments of Pediatrics and of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
2Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.

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