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. 2021 Dec;14(4):259-261.
doi: 10.1111/jebm.12445. Epub 2021 Oct 11.

The Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation for the meta-analysis of proportions: Recent criticisms were seriously misleading

Suhail A Doi  1 , Chang Xu  1
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The Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation for the meta-analysis of proportions: Recent criticisms were seriously misleading

Suhail A Doi et al. J Evid Based Med. 2021 Dec.
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