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Smoking and Lung Cancer: The Problem of Inferring Cause |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 437-458
P. R. J. Burch,
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SummaryMethodological problems that arise in epidemiology are briefly reviewed. Associations between smoking and lung cancer, and their connexion with sex and country, are described. Secular trends in recorded mortality from lung cancer in England and Wales, 1901 to 1970, are derived from the Registrar General's statistics. Estimates are made of the expected trends assuming that the associations found between the various types of smoking and lung cancer reflect causation. Observed and expected trends conflict. The secular trends in mortality from lung cancer in British male doctors are also examined. From the foregoing and other types of evidence it is argued that no definitive conclusions can be reached, as yet, about the extent of any causal link between smoking and lung cancer. It is very doubtful, however, whether the entire association observed between smoking and lung cancer in occidental males should be interpreted in causal terms.
ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.2307/2344483
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
数据来源: WILEY
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Discussion of Professor Burch's Paper |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 458-477
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ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.1111/j.2397-2327.1978.tb03968.x
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
数据来源: WILEY
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Business Statistics: A Decade of Central Collection |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 478-495
M. C. Fessey,
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SummaryAt the end of 1968 the Government set up the Business Statistics Office as a central agency planned to take over the collection of statistical information from businesses, work then done by statistics divisions of a number of Departments. This paper is a personal assessment of how these plans have developed against the background of some of the problems met in a government statistical office.
ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.2307/2344484
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
数据来源: WILEY
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Discussion of Mr Fessey's Paper |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 495-506
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ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.1111/j.2397-2327.1978.tb03970.x
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
数据来源: WILEY
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A Note on the Estimation of Voter Transition Probabilities |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 507-512
Graham J. G. Upton,
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SummaryThis paper utilizes the results of a panel survey, conducted after the General Elections of February and October 1974, to obtain the estimated voter transition probabilities for constituencies contested on each occasion by candidates representing the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties. The panel estimates are compared with those derived by McCarthy and Ryan (1977) who used a quadratic programming method. Although the panel results underestimate the proportion of the electorate who did not vote, they provide clear evidence that the quadratic programming oversimplifies the pattern of voting change. The panel results also show clearly that the pattern of voting change between two elections is affected by the relative party strengths in the first election.
ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.2307/2344485
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
数据来源: WILEY
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The Computer Generation of Bivariate Discrete Random Variables |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 513-519
C. D. Kemp,
S. Loukas,
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SummaryTwo different types of procedure for generating samples from bivariate discrete distributions are studied. The first ones are general in character and based on inverse interpolation in arrays of accumulated probabilities. The others are specific to individual distributions, are based on the stochastic structure of a distribution and combine univariate random variables in various ways. Timings are given for all the methods when used for bivariate Poisson and bivariate Hermite distributions. One of the general methods is recommended if storage requirements are not critical, but the stochastic methods are attractive where very little storage is available, e.g. programmable pocket calculators.
ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.2307/2344486
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
数据来源: WILEY
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Proceedings of a Special General Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Wednesday, June 21St, 1978 |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 520-520
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DOI:10.1111/j.2397-2327.1978.tb03973.x
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年代:2018
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President's Report |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 521-522
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DOI:10.1111/j.2397-2327.1978.tb03975.x
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
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Honorary Treasurer's Report |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 523-523
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ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.1111/j.2397-2327.1978.tb03976.x
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
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Annual Report of the Council |
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London,
Volume 141,
Issue 4,
2018,
Page 524-547
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ISSN:0959-5341
DOI:10.1111/j.2397-2327.1978.tb03977.x
出版商:Wiley
年代:2018
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