The myth and fallacy of simple extrapolation in medicine.

Simple extrapolation is the orthodox approach to extrapolating from clinical trials in evidence-based medicine: extrapolate the relative effect size (e.g. the relative risk) from the trial unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. I argue that this method relies on a myth and a fallacy. The...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 198; no. 4; pp. 2919 - 2940
Autor principal: Fuller, Jonathan
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Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2021
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