Before and After Bradford Hill: Some Trends in Medical Statistics
追溯布拉德福德·希尔及其前辈格林伍德的先驱工作所受的历史影响,并探讨1961年后医学统计学在方法论、计算机角色及学科范围上的发展趋势。
Sir Austin Bradford Hill was an outstanding medical statistician and research strategist. This paper traces some of the historical strands which influenced the pioneering work of Bradford Hill, and of his predecessor Major Greenwood. Medical statistics has developed in many ways since Bradford Hill's retiral in 1961. We consider some trends in the methodology of the subject, in the dominating role of computers and in the scope and influence of medical statistics