Woods and Russell, Hill, and the emergence of medical statistics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1459-1476

  Farewell, Vern ^a   Johnson, Tony ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austin Bradford Hill; Hilda Mary Woods; Medical statistics; William Thomas Russell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; STATISTICS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL STATISTICS; WATERSHED;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LONDON; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953714774     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3893     Document Type: Article

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