Lancelot Hogben, 1895–1975
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Fifty years ago: Lancelot Hogben reviews Bradford Hill. 1948.
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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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/142.3.655