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Lancet
Time and chance: the stochastic nature of disease causation.Coggon DI, Martyn CN.Lancet. 2005;365:1434-7.
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Survival plots of time-to-event outcomes in clinical trials: good practice and pitfalls.Pocock SJ, Clayton TC, Altman DG.Lancet. 2002;359:1686-9.
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New England Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
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Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Kidney International
Statistics in medicine
International Journal of Epidemiology
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Annals of Internal Medicine
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