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Setting number of decimal places for reporting risk ratios: rule of four

Reporting guideline provided for?
(i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper)
A simple framework to guide authors in the appropriate number of decimal places to use when reporting risk ratios.
Full bibliographic reference Cole TJ. Setting number of decimal places for reporting risk ratios: rule of four. BMJ. 2015;350:h1845.
Language English
PubMed ID 25918351
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The full-text of this reporting guideline is freely available from: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1845
Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? Statistical methods and analyses
Record last updated on December 17, 2021

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