Violating independence assumption in medical statistics

  • 0Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Centre, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

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