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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access published online on March 25, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, doi:10.1093/jnci/djn073
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Separation of Health and Statistics

Timothy R. Church

Affiliation of author: Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN

Correspondence to: Timothy R. Church, PhD, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, MMC 807, 420 Delaware St Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (e-mail: trc@cccs.umn.edu).

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The fields of medicine and public health have improved markedly over the last century owing in no small part to the rigorous application of statistical design and analysis to questions of human health. As Edwin B. Wilson wrote in 1923, "To a certain extent, we are all necessarily statisticians, whether doctors or not" (1). By the mid-20th century, the efforts of Ronald A. Fisher and A. Bradford Hill had finally succeeded in establishing the value of randomized clinical trials for reliably answering biomedical questions (2). For cancer researchers, not only has the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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