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Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Published in: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 1/2022

30-09-2021 | Plastic Surgery Technique | Letter to the Editor

Statistical P Values Have No Guiding Significance in Clinical Trials of Plastic Surgery with Small Sample Sizes

Authors: Xuejun Gao, Xia Cai

Published in: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery | Special Issue 1/2022

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Level of Evidence V This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these evidence-based medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.​springer.​com/​00266 …
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Metadata
Title
Statistical P Values Have No Guiding Significance in Clinical Trials of Plastic Surgery with Small Sample Sizes
Authors
Xuejun Gao
Xia Cai
Publication date
30-09-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / Issue Special Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 0364-216X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5241
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-021-02607-7

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