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What is the P-value anyway?

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 51, pages 1439–1440 (2016)Cite this article

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RPG acknowledges support from the National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre funding scheme. Parts of this typescript were published in Leukemia. Prof Hillard Lazarus kindly reviewed the typescript.

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  2. Division of Biostatistics and Center for International Bone Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

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Gale, R., Zhang, MJ. What is the P-value anyway?. Bone Marrow Transplant 51, 1439–1440 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2016.184

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