Fisher and Bradford Hill: theory and pragmatism?
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Fisher and Bradford Hill: theory and pragmatism?
provided the theoretical underpinning for tests of statistical significance.1 Because of this, it is often assumed that Fisher must have played a key role in the evolution of randomized trials in medicine during the 1930s and 1940s. Randomization was adopted by Austin Bradford Hill for Medical Research Council (MRC) trials for a more pragmatic reason, however. Bradford Hill was aware that an al...
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When the time came for me to leave school, there was only one subject I wanted to study: mathematics. I decided, however, for reasons that have been described elsewhere1 to read medicine instead. It was, therefore, not surprising that, as a medical student, I sought ways in which mathematics could be used in medicine and it was not long before I discovered one, when I came across Fisher’s2 book...
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Principles of Medical Statistics. By A. BRADFORD HILL, Fourth Edition: 1948. London: Lanicet. Pp. 252. (Price lOs. 6d.) The appearance of a new edition of Professor Bradford Hill's manual, after three reprints of the third during the war years, is at once an indication of its successful appeal to the audience for whom the author wrote it and of a growing interest in the use of statistical metho...
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INTRODUCTION Zika virus has been documented since 1952, but been associated with mild, self-limiting disease. Zika virus is classified as an arbovirus from a family of Flaviviridae and primarily spread by Aedes Aegypti mosquitos. However, in a large outbreak in Brazil in 2015, Zika virus has been associated with microcephaly. METHODS In this review we applied the Bradford-Hill viewpoints to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg295