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Jerome Cornfield

American statisticianWikipedia

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Oct 4, 2026

Dratsi Pod

Dratsi Pod

First Course in Causal Inference (Peng Ding)

Oct 4 · 1 Mention

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34:36
So how did the field defeat Fisher's argument if they couldn't find the gene?
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34:40
They defeated him with math, specifically Jerome Cornfield in 1959.
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34:45
Cornfield didn't run a new biological study.
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34:47
He pioneered what we now call sensitivity analysis.

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