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Cornfield, Jerome

Cornfield, Jerome

Jerome Cornfield, who had no advanced academic degrees, was for many years the major statistician at NIH, known mainly to the CVD community for his design of major clinical trials and for his pioneering use of the multiple logistic model for estimating CVD risk with multiple, intercorrelated risk variables. This became possible with powerful computers in the 1960s and revolutionized CVD epidemiological analysis.

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From Smith, George Davey. “Smoking and lung cancer: causality, Cornfield and an early observational meta-analysis.” in <i>Int. J. Epidemiol.</i> 38 (2009) 1169-1171.

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