Dear Ronny,
cc Edstat
Try looking at http://www.agius.com/hew/resource/assoc.htm, where
Austin Bradford-Hill's "Criteria for Determining Causation" are described.
Best wishes,
Malcolm Campbell
> Steve,
>
> I am not familar with this. Can you provide a reference.
>
> Ronny Richardson
>
>
> At 11:12 AM 10/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Most statisticians are delighted to get a very high correlation. The
> >strength of the correlation is one of the nine conditions
> that Hill set out
> >in 1965 to establish a cause and effect relationship.
> >
>
>
> Ronny Richardson
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