Methods don't make assumptions, researchers do: a response to Marchal et al

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¹ Centre for Evidence Based Intervention, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER, UK. christopher.bonell@spi.ox.ac.uk

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Chris Bonell et al. Soc Sci Med. 2013 Oct.

. 2013 Oct:94:81-2.

doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.026. Epub 2013 Jul 5.

¹ Centre for Evidence Based Intervention, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER, UK. christopher.bonell@spi.ox.ac.uk

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Keywords: Methodology; Randomised controlled trials.

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