Problems of Statistical Inference in Health with Special Reference to the Cigarette Smoking and Lung Cancer Controversy
健康研究中的统计推断问题:以吸烟与肺癌争议为例
Disagreement about the role of cigarette smoking in lung cancer is traced to three sources of confusion. In the first, there is lack of agreement as to the definition of terms and what is implied when a specific factor is said to be a cause of a particular disease. A suggested definition is offered to clarify one of the issues causing dissent. The second area of disagreement concerns the method of measuring the strength of the relationship in a 2 × 2 table, and whether the…