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Statistics and Meaningful Infection Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

David Birnbaum*
Affiliation:
Applied Epidemiology Sidney, British Columbia
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992 

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