Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics

Gordon C. S. Smith

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746

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Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics

Gordon C. S. Smith

* E-mail: gcss2@cam.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, NIHR Cambridge Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics

Gordon C. S. Smith

Published: October 21, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746

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