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  • 1Department of Biostatistics, Box 447, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. rex@mdanderson.org

Statistical Methods in Medical Research
|October 3, 2002
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