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Statistical considerations include discussions of study power, of the significance of confounders and how adjustment for confounders are made, mass significance and the meaning of p values, lumping or splitting. A summery is given of the statistical methods used in the book.
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Källén, B. (2014). Statistical Considerations. In: Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01472-2_4
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