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Measurement error: effects and remedies in nutritional epidemiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

David Clayton
Affiliation:
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Nutritional epidemiology’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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