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Clinical Trials: Relevance of Correlation Between Treatment Responses

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Background. Trials that do not allow to reject the null hypothesis of no treatment effect may have had an inappropriate design. Trials are virtually never assessed for correlation between responses to different treatment modalities.

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Cleophas, T.J. (1999). Clinical Trials: Relevance of Correlation Between Treatment Responses. In: Human Experimentation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4663-0_5

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