Why representativeness should be avoided
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Why representativeness should be avoided
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Commentary: On representativeness.Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1014-5. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt101. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062288 No abstract available.
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Commentary: Epidemiologists have debated representativeness for more than 40 years--has the time come to move on?Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1016-7. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt102. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062289 No abstract available.
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Commentary: Representativeness is usually not necessary and often should be avoided.Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1018-22. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt103. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062290 No abstract available.
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Commentary: Should we always deliberately be non-representative?Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1022-6. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt105. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062291 No abstract available.
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Rebuttal: When it comes to scientific inference, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1026-8. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt124. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062292 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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Representativeness is not helpful in studying heterogeneity of effects across subgroups.Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Apr;43(2):633-4. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt265. Epub 2014 Jan 6. Int J Epidemiol. 2014. PMID: 24396049 No abstract available.
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Avoidance of representativeness in presence of effect modification.Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Apr;43(2):630-1. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt263. Epub 2014 Jan 9. Int J Epidemiol. 2014. PMID: 24408970 No abstract available.
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Is representativeness the right question?Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Apr;43(2):631-2. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt264. Epub 2014 Jan 15. Int J Epidemiol. 2014. PMID: 24436097 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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Representativeness.Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Apr;43(2):632-3. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt271. Epub 2014 Jan 17. Int J Epidemiol. 2014. PMID: 24443500 No abstract available.
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