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The delusion of reducing sample size

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  1. Département de Pharmacologie, IFR de Santé Publique, Université Victor Segalen, C.H.U., 33076 , Bordeaux, France

    Bernard Bégaud, Annie Fourrier & Nicholas Moore

  2. Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Yola Moride

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Bégaud, B., Fourrier, A., Moore, N. et al. The delusion of reducing sample size. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 59, 711–712 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-003-0672-5

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