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Hill AB (1937)

Principles of medical statistics. London: Lancet.
In a series of articles published in The Lancet in 1937 and republished in a book the same year, the British statistician Austin Bradford Hill introduced the principles of medical statistics to medical doctors.

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Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)

Acknowledgements

The editors are grateful to:

The Wellcome Trust for making available the portrait of Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991).

Elsevier Ltd. for making a pdf of this article available (letter to Iain Chalmers from Laura Pritchard, 14 May 2014). For conditions of further reproduction, see here.

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Key articles

Bryder L (2010).
The Medical Research Council and clinical trial methodologies before the 1940s: the failure to develop a ‘scientific’ approach
Chalmers I, Dukan E, Podolsky SH, Davey Smith G (2011).
The advent of fair treatment allocation schedules in clinical trials during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Farewell V, Johnson A (2011).
The origins of Austin Bradford Hill’s classic textbook of medical statistics
Bryder L (2014).
The Medical Research Council and treatments for tuberculosis before streptomycin.

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Scadding JG (2002).
Reflections on my studies of the effects of sulphonamide drugs in bacillary dysentery in Egypt, 1943-1944.
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The MRC randomized trial of streptomycin and its legacy: a view from the clinical front line.
Chalmers I (2010).
Why the 1948 MRC trial of streptomycin used treatment allocation based on random numbers.
Chalmers I (2013).
UK Medical Research Council and multicentre clinical trials: from a damning report to international recognition.
Toth B (2015). Why the MRC Therapeutic Trials Committee didn’t introduce controlled clinical trials.

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