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Comment
. 2011 Oct;20(10):1161-5.
doi: 10.1002/hec.1754. Epub 2011 Jun 15.

Putting the cart before the horse. A comment on Wagstaff on inequality measurement in the presence of binary variables

Guido Erreygers  1 , Tom Van Ourti
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Putting the cart before the horse. A comment on Wagstaff on inequality measurement in the presence of binary variables

Guido Erreygers et al. Health Econ. 2011 Oct.
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