The Temptation of Large Numbers: Pitfalls in Epidemiological Research
April 2018
in “
Clinical microbiology and infection
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Studysummary This article examines the limitations of using large databases for epidemiological research, highlighting the risk of spurious associations due to data quality issues and insufficient adjustment for multiple comparisons, and reports no new results.
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