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Writing Up Clinical Research: A Statistician’s View

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Supported in part by funds from David H. Koch provided through the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers and P50-CA92629 SPORE grant from the National Cancer Institute to Dr. H Scher.

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Vickers, A.J. Writing Up Clinical Research: A Statistician’s View. J GEN INTERN MED 28, 1127–1129 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2413-5

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