title: The tyranny of statistics in medicine: a critique of unthinking adherence to an arbitrary p value.
authors.forename: Malcolm S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Mimi C
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authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Theresa L
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authors.lastname: Whiteside
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D012016:Reference Values; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic
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