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 Imagine a sample datafile that had a special study group as a treatement.  One might
 match this pairwise against the general population using:
 
-python resample.py -i example_datafile.csv -c example_definitions.csv -m "Study Group" -o out.csv
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+python resample.py -i example_datafile.csv -c example_definitions.csv -m "Study Group" -o out.csv
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