S4E2: Study Efficiency with Robert Platt

SERious EPI by Sue Bevan - Society for Epidemiologic Research

Sep 15, 202451:56Science & Medicine

In this episode we are joined by Professor Robert Platt of McGill University to talk about study efficiency and the ways we can think about this in terms of study design. We talk about hierarchies of evidence and its rel...

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