Perils of Observational Data Analyses
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The perils of conducting meta-analyses of observational data
Received 17 March 2014; Accepted 6 May 2014; Published 9 June 2014 Copyright: – 2014 Harling G and Subramanian SV; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Heart Association
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2047-9980
DOI: 10.1161/jaha.119.012490