Commentary AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF WILLIAM FARR 1
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William Farr must be counted a founder, even the founder, of epidemiology in its modern form. Among the special contributions of men like Quetelet and Galton to biostatistics, of John Snow to the survey as an explanatory instrument, and of Pasteur and Koch to specifications of environmental agents and host immunity, Farr's contributions surely cover the broadest range of the activities of contemporary epidemiologists. In his 40 years as statistician to the General Register Office, beginning in 1839, Farr studied many aspects of the
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تاریخ انتشار 2005