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SUBMITTER: Farewell V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2991772 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Statistics in medicine 20100601 14
In 1937, Austin Bradford Hill wrote Principles of Medical Statistics (Lancet: London, 1937) that became renowned throughout the world and is widely associated with the birth of modern medical statistics. Some 6 years earlier Hilda Mary Woods and William Thomas Russell, colleagues of Hill at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wrote a similar book An Introduction to Medical Statistics (PS King and Son: London, 1931) that is little known today. We trace the origins of these two boo ...[more]