Bradford Hill criteria

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Etymology[edit]

Established by Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, in 1965.

Noun[edit]

Bradford Hill criteria pl (normally plural, singular Bradford Hill criterion)

  1. (epidemiology) A group of nine principles, widely used in public health research, that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.
    Synonym: Hill criteria