Meta-analysis in epidemiology, with special reference to studies of the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer: a critique.

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  1991

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  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/0895-4356(91)90261-7PMID 1995774
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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