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Sparse Data Bias: A Problem Hiding in Plain Sight Publisher Pubmed



Greenland S1 ; Mansournia MA2 ; Altman DG3
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  1. 1. Department of Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  2. 2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, PO box 14155-6446, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Source: The BMJ Published:2016


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