| Life Table |
1662 |
Natural and political observations made upon the Bills of Mortality
J Graunt |
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| Life Table |
1693 |
An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind, Drawn from Curious Tables of the Births and Funerals at the City of Breslaw;
With an Attempt to Ascertain the Price of Annuities upon Lives.
E Halley |
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| Devonshire Colic |
1767 |
An Essay Concerning the Cause Of Endemial Colic Of Devonshire George Baker |
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1970 |
The Devonshire Colic H A Waldron |
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| Vaccination against Smallpox |
1798 |
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae
Vaccinae / A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western
Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and
Known by the Name of the Cow Pox. Edward Jenner
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| Gompertz Law of Mortality |
1825 |
On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality,
and on a New Mode of Determining the Value of Life Contingencies
B Gompertz |
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2010 |
Cultural imagery and statistical models of the force of mortality:
Addison, Gompertz and Pearson. E L Turner and J A Hanley |
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| Poisson Distribution |
1837 |
Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile ; précédées des Règles générales du calcul des probabilités
S-D Poisson |
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1907 |
On the Error of Counting with a Haemacytometer Student (W S Gosset) |
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| Logistic Curve (function) |
1844 |
Recherches mathématiques sur la loi
d'accroissement de la population
P-F Verhulst |
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200x |
The Origins of Logistic Regression
J S Cramer |
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| Snow on Cholera |
1849 |
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
J Snow |
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| Adulteration of bread -> rickets |
1857 |
On the adulteration of bread as a cause of rickets
J Snow |
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2003 |
Commentary:
John Snow and alum-induced rickets from adulterated London bread:
an overlooked contribution to metabolic bone disease M Dunnigan |
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| First Cousin Marriages and their Effects |
1875 |
Marriages between First Cousins in England and Their Effects
G H Darwin |
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2009 |
Marriages between first cousins in England and their effects |
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2009 |
Commentary: A Darwin family concern A Kuper |
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2018 |
Consanguineous Marriage and the Psychopathology of Progeny: A Population-wide Data Linkage Study. A Maguire |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29617531
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| Early Examples of 'Case-control' Thinking |
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link |
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| Regression (to Mediocrity) |
1886 |
Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature.
F Galton |
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Website on Galton and his work G Tredoux |
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Website containing JH's work on Galton J Hanley |
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| Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Statistic |
1900 |
On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the
case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably
supposed to have arisen from random sampling
K Pearson |
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| Probit Models |
1934 |
The Method of Probits.
by C I Bliss (bio 1)
(bio 2) |
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1935 |
The
Calculation of the Dosage-Mortality Curve C I Bliss |
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1935 |
The Case of Zero Survivors in Probit Analysis
R A Fisher |
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1936 |
The
Calculation of the Time-Mortality Curve C I Bliss |
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1948 |
A Table for the Calculation of
Working Probits and Weights in Probit Analysis D J Finney |
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20?? |
Probit Analysis Kim Vincent (SFU)
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2017 |
Wikipedia |
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| Smoking and Lung Cancer |
1938 |
Tabakmißbrauch und Lungencarcinom
F H Müller |
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1950 |
Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchogenic Carcinoma
E L Wynder and E A Graham |
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1950 |
Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung
R Doll and AB Hill |
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2012 |
The history of the discovery of the cigarette-lung cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate denial, global toll
R N Proctor |
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2012 |
Comments
O S Miettinen [ search "troika of Franz Müller, Richard Doll, and Ernst Wynder"] |
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| Sensitivity Specificity |
1947 |
Statistical Problems in Assessing Methods of Medical Diagnosis,
with Special Reference to X-Ray Techniques
J Yerushalmy |
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| Tumbler Mortality |
1947 |
Tumbler Mortality
G W Brown and M M Flood |
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| Estimating Comparative Rates |
1951 |
A method of estimating comparative rates from
clinical data; applications to cancer of the lung, breast, and cervix
J Cornfield |
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| Estimating Comparative Rates |
1955 |
On Estimating the Relation Between Blood Group and Disease.
B Woolf |
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| Product-Limit (Kaplan-Meier) Survival Curve |
1958 |
Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations. E L Kaplan and P Meier |
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1967 |
K-M: Self-consistent; a 'Re-distribute to the Right' Estimator B Efron |
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2016 |
The Kaplan-Meier theatre T A Gerds |
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| Mantel-Haenszel |
1959 |
Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Data From Retrospective Studies of Disease (part 1).
(part 2)
(part 2)
N Mantel and W Haenszel |
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| Thalidomide (Distaval) |
1961 |
Distaval -- Letter to Editor
D J Hayman, [Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd.], |
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| Logistic Model in Epidemiology |
1962
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Joint dependence of risk of coronary heart disease on serum cholesterol and systolic blood pressure: a discriminant function analysis
J Cornfield |
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1967 |
A Multivariate Analysis of the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Framingham
J Cornfield and W Kannel |
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1967 |
Estimation of the Probability of an Event as a Function of Several Independent Variables
S H Walker and D B Duncan |
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1973 |
Synthetic Retrospective Studies and Related Topics
N Mantel |
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2002 |
Are Statistical Contributions to Medicine Undervalued?
N E Breslow.
--- discussion of McFadden's (1973) "conditional logit model",
and Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 |
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| Cox Model |
1972 |
Regression Models and Life Tables.
D R Cox |
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| Generalized Linear Models |
1972 |
Generalized Linear Models
J A Nelder and R W M Wedderburn |
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