Commentary
On the limitations of comparative effectiveness research
Donald B. Rubin,
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Donald B. Rubin
Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this authorDonald B. Rubin,
Corresponding Author
Donald B. Rubin
Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author
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