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Correlation among baseline variables yields non-uniformity of p-values

Rebecca A. Betensky ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: betensky@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3793-1437

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Sy Han Chiou

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Correlation among baseline variables yields non-uniformity of p-values

Rebecca A. Betensky,
Sy Han Chiou

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Published: September 8, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184531

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