History of Statistics in Public Health at CDC, 1960-2010 : the Rise of Statistical Evidence

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement
• Personal Author:
  Stroup, PDonna F. ; Lyerla, Rob
• Description:
  When CDC was established in 1946 (as the Communicable Disease Center), the U.S. Public Health Service borrowed statistical Methods developed by Florence Nightingale and Edwin Chadwick, who had applied these techniques to implement sanitary measures in London (2). Based on William Farr's use of statistical induction to analyze death rates (3), Karl Pearson's creation of goodness-of-fit tests and correlation Methods, and Bradford Hill's development of guidelines for establishing causal relationships (4), Nightingale employed statistics in her efforts to reform the British military health-care system through the founding of training programs and definition of sound professional Standards (5).
  
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• Content Notes:
  Introduction -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- The 2000s -- The Future of statistics.
• Subjects:
  Biostatistics / History CDC / History CDC / MMWR / History Chronic Disease / Epidemiology Communicable Diseases / Epidemiology Epidemiology / History History, 20th Century History, 21st Century MMWR-History Periodicals As Topic / History Public Health / History

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• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement, 2011; v.60, p. 35-41
• Series:
  Supplements: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  2380-8950 (print) ; 2380-8942 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  p. 35-41
• Volume:
  60
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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