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Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 3. Measures of observer variability (kappa statistic)
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- Authors
- McGinn, T.
- Venue
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Publisher
- CMA Joule Inc.
- Published
- 2004-11-23
- Volume
- 171
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1369-1373
- ISSN
- 0820-3946 (ISSN-L)
- 1488-2329
- OpenAlex
- W2153928704
- Cited by
- 482
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 18.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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