Comments regarding "On prognosis" by William Farr (1838) with reconstruction of his longitudinal analysis of smallpox recovery and death rates

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 285-289

  Gerstman, B Burt ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DYING; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; SMALLPOX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SMALLPOX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041718114     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-003-3001-y     Document Type: Note

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