The numbers game: evaluation of statistics by obstetrics & gynecology

Roy M Pitkin1, James R Scott, Leon F Burmeister

  • 1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; and the College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Obstetrics and Gynecology
|January 10, 2014
PubMed

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