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Review
. 2020 Jun;113(6):225-229.
doi: 10.1177/0141076820928901.

The origins of the treatment of uncertainty in clinical medicine - Part 2: the emergence of probability theory and its limitations

Robert Aj Matthews  1
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Review

The origins of the treatment of uncertainty in clinical medicine - Part 2: the emergence of probability theory and its limitations

Robert Aj Matthews. J R Soc Med. 2020 Jun.
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