Joseph Berkson

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Joseph Berkson

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Berkson was trained as a physicist , physician , and statistician . He is best known for having identified a source of bias in observational studies caused by selection effects known as Berkson's paradox.

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Joseph Berkson's Published Works

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Limitations of the application of fourfold table analysis to hospital data. (1946) (1699)
Calculation of survival rates for cancer. (1950) (943)
Application of the Logistic Function to Bio-Assay (1944) (878)
Survival Curve for Cancer Patients Following Treatment (1952) (809)
A Statistically Precise and Relatively Simple Method of Estimating the Bio-Assay with Quantal Response, Based on the Logistic Function (1953) (395)
Some Difficulties of Interpretation Encountered in the Application of the Chi-Square Test (1938) (343)
Studies of the energy of metabolism of normal individuals: a standard for basal metabolism, with a nomogram for clinical application. (1936) (299)
Maximum Likelihood and Minimum x 2 Estimates of the Logistic Function (1955) (266)
Tests of significance considered as evidence (1942) (257)
MINIMUM CHI-SQUARE, NOT MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD! (1980) (231)
Why I Prefer Logits to Probits (1951) (190)
THE NORMAL RANGE OF GASTRIC ACIDITY FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE: AN ANALYSIS OF 3,746 RECORDS (1932) (153)
THE ERROR OF ESTIMATE OF THE BLOOD CELL COUNT AS MADE WITH THE HEMOCYTOMETER (1939) (137)
Smoking and Lung Cancer: Some Observations on Two Recent Reports (1958) (115)
In dispraise of the exact test: Do the marginal totals of the 2X2 table contain relevant information respecting the table proportions? (1978) (114)
The Application of the Logistic Function to Experimental Data. (109)
Estimation of a Linear Function for a Calibration Line; Consideration of a Recent Proposal (1969) (98)
Tobacco and Coronary Disease (1940) (98)
The statistical study of association between smoking and lung cancer. (1955) (96)
Mortality and marital status. Reflections on the derivation of etiology from statistics. (1962) (78)
Competing Exponential Risks, with Particular Reference to the Study of Smoking and Lung Cancer (1960) (70)
A clinical bio-assay for chorionic gonadotropin. (1951) (65)
Carcinoma and other malignant lesions of the stomach. (1949) (59)
Plasma concentration of epinephrine and norepinephrine in hemorrhagic and anaphylactic shock. (1957) (54)
Estimate of the Integrated Normal Curve by Minimum Normit Chi-Square with Particular Reference to Bio-Assay (1955) (52)
CHANGES IN GASTRIC ACIDITY IN PEPTIC ULCER, CHOLECYSTITIS AND OTHER DISEASES: ANALYZED WITH THE HELP OF A NEW AND ACCURATE TECHNIC (1933) (48)
Chemical Quantitation of Epinephrine and Norepinephrine in Thirteen Patients with Pheochromocytoma (1954) (45)
ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT (1932) (45)
THE DIURNAL CYCLE IN THE LIVER: I. Periodicity of the Cycle, with Analysis of Chemical Constituents Involved (1932) (44)
Application of minimum logit chi square estimate to a problem of Grizzle with a notation on the problem of 'no interaction'. (1968) (43)
Mortality and disability in multiple sclerosis; a statistical estimate of prognosis. (1951) (41)
Cost-utility as a measure of the efficiency of a test. (1947) (40)
Tables for the Maximum Likelihood Estimate of the Logistic Function (1957) (40)
Blood sugar in newborn infants (1949) (40)
Estimation by Least Squares and by Maximum Likelihood (1956) (38)
Minimum X2 maximum likelihood solution in terms of a linear transform, with particular reference to bio-assay. (1949) (36)
Mortality and survival in surgically treated cancer of the breast: a statistical summary of some experience of the Mayo Clinic. (1957) (35)
The Treatment of Clinical and Laboratory Data (1939) (34)
THE RELATION BETWEEN VISCOSITY OF THE BLOOD AND THE RELATIVE VOLUME OF ERYTHROCYTES (HEMATOCRIT VALUE) (1935) (31)
Minimum discrimination information, the 'no interaction' problem, and the logistic function. (1972) (30)
THE DIURNAL CYCLE IN THE LIVER OF THE WHITE RAT: II. Food, A Factor in its Determination (1933) (28)
Mortality and survival in cancer of the stomach: a statistical summary of the experience of the Mayo Clinic. (1952) (28)
STUDIES OF THE ENERGY OF METABOLISM OF NORMAL INDIVIDUALS: The Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability of Basal Metabolism (1938) (28)
TABLES FOR USE IN ESTIMATING THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION BY NORMIT ANALYSIS PART I. DESCRIPTION AND USE OF TABLES: PART II. COMPARISON BETWEEN MINIMUM NORMIT X2 ESTIMATE AND THE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE (1957) (28)
The Error of Determination of the Erythrocyte Count (1936) (26)
RELATIVE MEASUREMENT IN VIVO OF ACCUMULATION OF RADIOIODINE BY THE HUMAN THYROID GLAND: COMPARISON WITH RADIOACTIVITY IN PERIPHERAL TISSUES. (1949) (25)
The statistical investigation of smoking and cancer of the lung. (1959) (24)
Do the marginal totals of the 2X2 table contain relevant information respecting the table proportions (1978) (23)
Gastric acidity before and after the development of carcinoma of the stomach. (1947) (23)
Cancer of the stomach (1965) (23)
Epinephrine and arterenol (norepinephrine) in mental disease; plasme and cerebrospinal fluid concentrations. (1957) (22)
Approximation of Chi-Square by “Probits” and by “Logits” (1946) (22)
A comparison of vagotomy and gastric resection for gastrojejunal ulceration: a follow-up study of 301 cases. (1955) (22)
Occurrence of gastric cancer in persons with achlorhydria and with pernicious anemia. (1956) (21)
Smoking and cancer of the lung. (1960) (21)
Neoplasms of the Testis (1939) (20)
STUDIES OF THE ENERGY OF METABOLISM OF NORMAL INDIVIDUALS. A COMPARISON OF THE ESTIMATION OF BASAL METABOLISM FROM (1) A LINEAR FORMULA AND (2) "SURFACE AREA" (1936) (19)
Multiple sclerosis in a rural community. (1950) (18)
Determination of renal clearance radioiodine. (1950) (17)
Relative Precision of Minimum Chi-square and Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Regression Coefficients (1951) (17)
A Note on the Chi-Square Test, the Poisson and the Binomial (1940) (17)
Laboratory Standards in Relation to Chance Fluctuations of the Erythrocyte Count as Estimated with the Hemocytometer (1935) (16)
Identification of "positives" in roentgenographic readings. (1960) (15)
THE URINARY EXCRETION OF RADIOIODINE IN VARIOUS THYROID STATES. (1947) (15)
Biometric studies of the growth of children of Rochester, Minnesota; the first year of life. (1951) (15)
A Minimax Estimator for the Logistic Function (1961) (15)
Electronic blood-cell counting. (1960) (14)
ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: IV. An Inquiry into the Origin of the Potential Variations of Rhythmic Contraction in the Intestine; Evidence in Disfavor of Muscle Action Currents (1933) (14)
An improvement of 180 per cent in the five-year survival rate of patients with carcinoma of the stomach. (1953) (13)
Do radioactive decay events follow a random poisson-exponential? (1975) (13)
THE COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION. (1933) (13)
AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT: THE VARIABILITY OF BASAL METABOLISM: SOME OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING ITS APPLICATION IN CONDITIONS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE (1937) (12)
Effect of thyroxine and thiouracil on the rate of phospholipid turnover in the liver of the rat. (1948) (12)
ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: III. Observations on Excised Intestine (1933) (11)
Experience with Tests of Significance: A Reply to Professor R. A. Fisher (1943) (11)
THE ONE HOUR-TWO DOSE DEXTROSE TOLERANCE TEST (EXTON-ROSE PROCEDURE): DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE (1939) (10)
A method for quantitative estimation of epinephrine and norepinephrine; preliminary report. (1953) (10)
A System of Codification of Medical Diagnoses for Application to Punch Cards, With a Plan of Operation. (1936) (10)
Suture of peripheral nerves; factors affecting prognosis. (1949) (9)
Nomograms for fitting the logistic function by maximum likelihood (1960) (9)
Gastric acidity before and after the development of carcinoma of the stomach. (1948) (8)
Some observations with respect to the error of bio-assay. (1950) (8)
Smoking and Lung Cancer (1963) (6)
My Encounter with neo-Bayesianism (1977) (6)
ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: V. Further Inquiries into the Origin of Potential Variations of the Small Intestine by Means of Certain Drugs (1933) (5)
SMOKING AND LUNG CANCER: ANOTHER VIEW (1962) (5)
Review of medical cardiac deaths: Rochester Hospitals, 1952-53. (1956) (4)
First Report of the Committee on Committees (1949) (4)
[Prognosis in coronary heart disease in relation to the hypoxia test]. (1954) (4)
Treatment of breast cancer; the question of selection. (1958) (4)
Corrigenda: Competing Exponential Risks, with Particular Reference to the Study of Smoking and Lung Cancer (1960) (3)
ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: VI. Recovery of Characteristic Electropotential Variations of the Small Intestine Following Application of Nicotine, by Restoration of Circulation (1933) (3)
A Punch Card Designed to Contain Written Data and Coding (1941) (3)
Comments on Dr. Madow's "Note on Tests of Departure from Normality" with Some Remarks Concerning Tests of Significance (1941) (3)
ON THE RATE OF REACTION BETWEEN ENZYME AND SUBSTRATE (1928) (3)
Antitryptic Titre in Pregnancy and in Hyperthyroidism. (1929) (2)
A Note on the Minimum χ2 1 Estimate and a L.A.M.S.T. χ2 in the “No Interaction” Problem (1974) (2)
Error of the Determination of the Eosinophil Count in Peritoneal Fluid of the Rat (1954) (2)
The relation in man between gastric acidity and height and weight (1936) (2)
The surgical treatment of gastrojejunal ulceration. (1955) (2)
An improvement of 180 per cent in the 1‐2—survival rate of patients with cancer of the stomach (1952) (2)
A Tabular Outline for Use in Reporting Hospital Morbidity. (1938) (2)
“Action Currents” Without Rhythmic Contractions and Rhythmic Contractions Without “Action Currents.” (1932) (2)
Lung Cancer and Tuberculosis (1958) (2)
A PROBABILITY NOMOGRAM FOR ESTIMATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RATE DIFFERENCES (1929) (1)
Results of treating carcinoma of the stomach by gastrectomy. (1949) (1)
Tables for Use in the Estimating the Normal Distribution by Normit Analysis (1960) (1)
The question of compensating variability (1929) (1)
RATE OF REACTION AND CONCENTRATION OF ENZYME. (1937) (1)
Turnover Rate of Phospholipid Phosphorus in the Liver of the White Rat (1948) (1)
Retinopathy of Immaturity (1957) (1)
STATISTICS AND TOBACCO (1960) (1)
A Test for the Goodness of Fit of a Curve Graduated to a Series of Observed Means (1936) (1)
“The Air We Breathe” (1962) (1)
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The Mechanics of Teleology (1929) (0)
SIGNIFICANT FIGURES IN STATISTICAL CONSTANTS. (1936) (0)
A note on the x2-test, the Poisson and the binomial. (1940) (0)
CARCINOMA OF THE STOMACH AT THE MAYO CLINIC (5 TO 30-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF 10,646 SURGICAL CASES). (1963) (0)
Alteration of the curve of hemolysis by components of complement. (1954) (0)
Electromyographic Studies of Gastro-intestinal Tract. II. Is There a Gradient of Electrical Potential Along the Small Intestine? (1933) (0)
The other Side of the Lower Bound. A Note with a Correction (1961) (0)
Gastric acidity before and after the development of carcinoma of the stomach. (1947) (0)
TOTAL versus SUBTOTAL HYSTERECTOMY (1943) (0)
of the American Heart Association Chemical Quantitation of Epinephrine and Norepinephrine in Thirteen Patients with Pheochromocytoma By (0)
The statistical investigation of smoking and cancer of the lung. (1959) (0)

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