Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 61, Issue 12 , Pages 1195-1196 , December 2008

The futility of utility weighting

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PII: S0895-4356(08)00186-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.07.004

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 61, Issue 12 , Pages 1195-1196 , December 2008