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A reference for a sum found in Gould's Combinatorial Identities book

On p. 49 in Gould's book Combinatorial Identities, the author states that the sum $$\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(-1)^k\binom{n}{k}\binom{2n}{2k}^{-1}$$ "... arises naturally in a statistical problem; it ...