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  1. Uppsala Monitoring Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, Uppsala, Sweden

    Johan Hopstadius, G. Niklas Norén, Andrew Bate & I. Ralph Edwards

  2. Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    G. Niklas Norén

  3. School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunei University, London, UK

    Andrew Bate

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Hopstadius, J., Norén, G.N., Bate, A. et al. Stratification for Spontaneous Report Databases. Drug-Safety 31, 1145–1147 (2008). https://doi.org/10.2165/0002018-200831120-00010

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