Calculating the “number needed to be exposed” with adjustment for confounding variables in epidemiological studies
- 31 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Vol. 55 (5) , 525-530
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0895-4356(01)00510-8
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