Pisidian Wolf-priests, Phrygian Goat-Priests, and the Old-Ionian Tribes

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Businessmen, Priests and Parishes

Priests or engineers?

On 5 and 6 May the BMJ held a conference in Oxford to discuss the next 30 years. By invitation, five of the participants prepared working papers, which were circulated beforehand; we print these below, together with an edited version of the discussion. A sixth paper, also prepared for the conference by Professor Rudolf Klein, appears on p 73. The sessions were chaired by Professor Klein and mem...

Statistical Reanalysis of Jewish Priests’ and Non- Priests’ Haplotypes Using Exact Methods

Researchers in an article appearing in Nature used asymptotic (i.e., large sample) chi-square tests in analyzing haplotypes of Y chromosomes using the polymerase chain reaction applied to genomic DNA from male Israeli, North American, and British Jews. The use of classical methods for analyzing extremely sparse contingency tables is frequently done, but with the advent of statistical software c...

Mortality among Japanese Zen priests.

A cohort study was done on 1396 deaths seen among 4352 Japanese male Zen priests during a follow up period from 1 January 1955 to 31 December 1978. Standardised mortality ratios were computed for major causes of death by comparing with the counterparts of the general Japanese male population. The SMR for all causes of death was 0.82 (p less than 0.001) and the SMR values for cerebrovascular dis...