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Statistics in Clinical Research

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Statistics in medical research is no longer what it was some 15 years ago: some descriptive measures for a collection of numbers and P-values based on tests appropriately chosen according to the type of data used

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  1. idv-Data Analysis and Study Planning, D-82131, Gauting, Germany

    Volker W. Rahlfs

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  1. Rheinisch-Westfalisch Tecnische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

    Doris A. Schwindt

  2. Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Rahlfs, V.W. (2000). Statistics in Clinical Research. In: Schwindt, D.A., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Cutaneous Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1199-1_1

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