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SUBMITTER: Rolland B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4675662 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rolland Betsy B Reid Suzanna S Stelling Deanna D Warnick Greg G Thornquist Mark M Feng Ziding Z Potter John D JD
American journal of epidemiology 20151120 12
Cancer epidemiologists have a long history of combining data sets in pooled analyses, often harmonizing heterogeneous data from multiple studies into 1 large data set. Although there are useful websites on data harmonization with recommendations and support, there is little research on best practices in data harmonization; each project conducts harmonization according to its own internal standards. The field would be greatly served by charting the process of data harmonization to enhance the qua ...[more]