Jerome Cornfield
Jerome Cornfield (1912–1979) was an American
input-output analysis and linear programming. Cornfield played a crucial role in establishing the causal link between smoking and incidence of lung cancer.[2]
He introduced the confounder can explain away the observed relative risk due to some exposure like smoking.[4]
He was born on October 30, 1912, in
National Heart Institute, the University of Pittsburgh, and George Washington University
.
In 1951 he was elected as a
President of the American Statistical Association
in 1974.
Cornfield married Ruth Bittler in 1937. They had two daughters, Ann and Ellen.
He died on September 17, 1979, in Great Falls, Virginia.
References
- .
- PMID 13621204.
- ISSN 1460-2105.
- doi:10.1093/biomet/asu030.)
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- Greenhouse, Samuel W. (1982). "A Tribute". Biometrics. 38 (Proceedings of "Current Topics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology." A Memorial Symposium in Honor of Jerome Cornfield): 3–6. JSTOR 2529847.
- Greenhouse, Samuel W. (2005). "Cornfield, Jerome". Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 047084907X.
- Jerome Cornfield Papers: Historical Note. Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.
- Jerome Cornfield: Chair 1958–1960. Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Jerome Cornfield: Papers by and Comments On. Compiled by Milo Schield, Editor of www.StatLit.org
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
  | This article about a statistician from the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |