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  • American Public Health Association
  • American Statistical Association
  • Bayes, Thomas
  • Berkson, J.
  • Bernard, C.
  • Bernoulli family
  • Bertillon Family
  • Biometrical Journal (J)
  • Biometrics (J)
  • Biometrika (J)
  • Bliss, Chester
  • Bonferroni
  • Bonferroni, C
  • Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus, von
  • Brownlee, John
  • Byar, D.P.
  • Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Chalmers, T.C.
  • Clinical trials, early cancer and heart disease
  • Cochran, William Gemmell
  • Cochrane Collaboration
  • Cochrane, Archibald (Archie) Leman
  • Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS)
  • Controlled Clinical Trials (J)
  • Cooperative cancer trials
  • Cooperative heart disease trials
  • Cornfield, J.
  • Cox, Gertrude
  • Cutler, Sid
  • De Finetti
  • De Moivre, Abraham
  • DeMoivre, A.
  • Dorn, H.
  • Drug regulation
  • Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
  • European Federationof Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (EFPSI)
  • European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
  • Farr, William
  • Fisher lectures
  • Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Framingham Study
  • Fraud, detection of
  • Galton, Francis
  • Gardner, Martin John
  • Gauss, Carl Friedrich
  • Gavarret, L-D-J
  • Geometry in statistics
  • Gini, Corrado
  • Gosset, William Sealy
  • Graunt, J.
  • Greenberg, B.G.
  • Greenwood, Major
  • Guy, William Augustus
  • Halley, E.
  • Halperin, M.
  • Hawkins, F. Bisset
  • Hill, A. Bradford
  • History of biostatistics
  • History of health statistics
  • History of statistics
  • Hogben, Lancelot Thomas
  • Hotelling, Harold
  • Indian Statistical Institute
  • Institut National de la Sante de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
  • International Agency for Research Against Cancer (IARC)
  • International Biometric Society
  • International Society for Clinical Biostatistics
  • International Statistical Institute
  • International Studies of Infarct Survival (ISIS) trials
  • Irwin, Joseph Oscar
  • Jeffreys, H.
  • Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (J)
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (J)
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association: Its Organization and Purpose
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association: Its Writings
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (J)
  • Kendall, Maurice George
  • Kolmogorov, A.N.
  • Laplace, Pierre-Simon
  • Leukemia clusters
  • Linder, Forrest E.
  • Louis, P. C. A.
  • Mahalanobis, P.C.
  • Mainland, D.
  • Malthus, T.R.
  • Martini, P.
  • Maxwell, Albert Ernest
  • McKendrick, Anderson Gray
  • Media and statistics
  • Medical ethics and statistics
  • Medical journals and use of statistics
  • Medical Research Council (MRC)
  • Medical Research Council Streptomycin trial
  • Medical research, influence of statistics
  • Medicines Control Agency (MCA)
  • Medico-legal cases and statistics
  • Merrell, Margaret
  • Moran, Patrick Alfred Pierce
  • Muench, H.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Neyman, Jerzy
  • Nightingale, Florence
  • Office for National Statistics (ONS) (formerly OPCS)
  • Pascal, Blaise
  • Pearl, R.
  • Pearson, Egon Sharpe
  • Pearson, Karl
  • Peirce, C.S.
  • Petty, W.
  • Pharmaceutical industry, statisticians in
  • Pharmaceutical industry, statistics in
  • Pinel, P.
  • Poisson, S.D.
  • Popper, Karl R.
  • Professional statistical practices, principles
  • Proprietary biostatistical firms
  • Public understanding of statistics
  • Quetelet, A.
  • Rasch, Georg
  • Remington, R.
  • Royal Statistical Society
  • Salk vaccine
  • Savage, Leonard Jimmie
  • Schneiderman, Marvin Arthur
  • Scientific method and statistics
  • Smoking and health
  • Snedecor, G.W.
  • Soper, Herbert Edward
  • Spiegelman, M.
  • Statistical consulting
  • Statistical Methods in Medical Research (J)
  • Statistical review for medical journals
  • Statistical review for medical journals, guidelines for authors
  • Statistical review for medical journals, journal's perspective
  • Statistician as expert witness
  • Statisticians in drug regulation
  • Statistics in Medicine (J)
  • Statistics, papers of influence
  • Stocks, Percy
  • Teaching medical statistics to statisticians
  • Teaching statistics to medical students
  • Teaching statistics to physicians
  • Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC)
  • University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP)
  • Wald, A.
  • Wilcoxon, Frank
  • Worcester, J.
  • World Health Organization (WHO): global health situation
  • Yates, F.
  • Yule, George Udny


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