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. 2015 Jul;26(4):e48.
doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000308.

Type of question could inform the taxonomy of bias

C Mary Schooling  1 , Benjamin J Cowling, C Mary Schooling
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Type of question could inform the taxonomy of bias

C Mary Schooling et al. Epidemiology. 2015 Jul.
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