Evaluation of excess significance bias in animal studies of neurological diseases

Tsilidis, Konstantinos K., Panagiotou, Orestis A., Sena, Emily S., Aretouli, Eleni, Evangelou, Evangelos, Howells, David W., Salman, Rustam Al-Shahi, Macleod, Malcolm R. +1 more·2013·PLoS Biology
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001609

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