Austin Bradford Hill

Thinkers1897 to 1991Epidemiologist

Works

  • The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1965

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Known for

A medical statistician who helped establish the randomized clinical trial and, with Richard Doll, the link between smoking and lung cancer. His 1965 address set out nine considerations, such as strength, consistency, and temporality, for judging whether an observed association is causal.

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