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Comment
. 2022 May;71(5):1038-1039.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324936. Epub 2021 Jul 14.

Incorrectly analysing stratified and minimised trials may lead to wrongfully rejecting superiority of interventions

Reinier Cornelis Anthonius van Linschoten  1   2 , Rachel West  3 , Desirée van Noord  3 , Nikki van Leeuwen  4
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Incorrectly analysing stratified and minimised trials may lead to wrongfully rejecting superiority of interventions

Reinier Cornelis Anthonius van Linschoten et al. Gut. 2022 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: biostatistics; clinical trials; statistics.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: RCAvL has nothing to disclose. DvN reports grants from AbbVie, Falk, Ferring, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, and Takeda and personal fees from Janssen and Takeda outside the submitted work. RW reports grants from AbbVie, Falk, Ferring, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, and Takeda and personal fees from AbbVie, Janssen and Pfizer outside the submitted work. NvL Leeuwen has nothing to disclose.

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