Reflecting on “A Statistician in Medicine” in 2020
Walter Dempsey
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Bhramar Mukherjee
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Correspondence Bhramar Mukherjee, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Search for more papers by this authorWalter Dempsey
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Bhramar Mukherjee
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Correspondence Bhramar Mukherjee, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Email: [email protected]
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In this commentary, we revisit Sir Austin Bradford Hill's seminal Alfred Watson Memorial Lecture in 1962 through the eyes of two practicing biostatisticians of the current era. We summarize some eternal takeaway messages from Hill's lecture regarding observations and experiments translated through the modern lexicon of causal inference. Finally, we pose a series of questions that we would have liked to pose to Sir Austin Bradford Hill if he were to deliver the lecture in 2020.
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