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. 2018 Aug:210:53-56.

doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.029. Epub 2018 Apr 21.

Randomized controlled trials: Often flawed, mostly useless, clearly indispensable: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright

John P A Ioannidis¹

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¹ Departments of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, 1265 Welch Rd, Medical School Office Building Room X306, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: jioannid@stanford.edu.

PMID: 29776687
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.029

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Randomized controlled trials: Often flawed, mostly useless, clearly indispensable: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright

John P A Ioannidis. Soc Sci Med. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug:210:53-56.

doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.029. Epub 2018 Apr 21.

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John P A Ioannidis¹

Affiliation

¹ Departments of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, 1265 Welch Rd, Medical School Office Building Room X306, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: jioannid@stanford.edu.

PMID: 29776687
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.029

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