The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?
Proceedings of the Royal Society of MedicinePublished 1 May 1965Open access
Austin Bradford Hill
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This paper contrasts Bradford Hill’s approach with a currently fashionable framework for reasoning about statistical associations – the Common Task Framework – and suggests why following Bradford Hill, 50+ years on, is still extraordinarily reasonable.
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