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Significance bias: an empirical evaluation of the oral health literature

BACKGROUND: The tendency to selectively report “significant” statistical results (file-drawers effect) or run selective analyses to achieve “significant” results (data-dredging) has been observed in many scientific fields. Subsequently, statistically significant findings may be due to selective repo...

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Autores principales: Kagereki, Edwin, Gakonyo, Joseph, Simila, Hazel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27150796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-016-0208-x