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BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012, 12:47Quality assessment of sports injury studies
A comparison of conference abstracts and published papers reveals that randomized controlled studies and observational studies are published in journals with similar impact factors, and most abstract results differ once published.
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BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012, 12:21Problems with quantiles
Grouping continuous variables into quantiles is an intuitive concept in epidemiological research, but such an approach can be fundamentally problematic, and epidemiologists should consider alternatives.
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BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012, 12:5Techniques for mediated longitudinal data
Alternative statistical techniques, such as non-linear mixed models (NLMM), are demonstrated to be preferable to structural equation models when investigating total effects of predictors on binary outcomes.
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