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- 1967
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- article
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- 20
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- 7
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- 487-495
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- 118
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Irwin D. J. Bross
(1967).
Pertinency of an extraneous variable.
Journal of Chronic Diseases
, 20
(7)
, 487-495.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9681(67)90080-x
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- 10.1016/0021-9681(67)90080-x