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The reanalysis ignored the within-participant, repeated-measures structure of the data.
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The reanalysis was fatally flawed in several respects, with the most egregious errors related to ignoring the within-participant, repeated-measures structure of the data.
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Critique of statistical methodology in a randomized trial.
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Flawed Reanalysis Fails to Support the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity
Christina M. Sciarrillo et al. · Preprints.org · 2024
DOI 10.20944/preprints202401.1810.v1
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