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A retrospective and prospective study of biostatistics in Canada
Richard J Cook1, Erica E M Moodie2
1Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Abstract:
Biostatistics is foundational to public health research and Canada has a history of high impact contributions both in seminal methodological advances and in the rigorous application of methods for the design or analysis of public health studies. In this article, we provide a brief and personal review of selected contributions from Canadian biostatisticians to fields such as survival and life history analysis, sampling, clinical trial methodology, environmental risk assessment, infectious disease epidemiology, and early work on prediction. We also provide a brief look forward at the upcoming needs and future directions of biostatistical research.
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