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Weinberg, C. (1993). Toward a clearer definition of confounding.

American Journal of Epidemiology 137: 1–8.

Wikipedia. (2016). Confounding. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding (accessed: September 16, 2016). Williamson, E., Aitken, Z., Lawrie, J., Dharmage, S., Burgess, H., and Forbes, A. (2014). Introduction to causal diagrams for confounder selection. Respirology 19: 303–311.

Глава 5. Дымные дебаты: на свежий воздух

Глава 5. Дымные дебаты: на свежий воздух

Annotated Bibliography

Two book-length studies, Brandt (2007) and Proctor (2012a), contain all the information any reader could ask for about the smoking — lung cancer debate, short of reading the actual tobacco company documents (which are available online). Shorter surveys of the smoking-cancer debate in the 1950s are Salsburg (2002, Chapter 18), Parascandola (2004), and Proctor (2012b). Stolley (1991) takes a look at the unique role of R. A. Fisher, and Greenhouse (2009) comments on Jerome Cornfield’s importance. The shot heard around the world was Doll and Hill (1950), which first implicated smoking in lung cancer; though technical, it is a scientific classic.

For the story of the surgeon general’s committee and the emergence of the Hill guidelines for causation, see Blackburn and Labarthe (2012) and Morabia (2013). Hill’s own description of his criteria can be found in Hill (1965).

Lilienfeld (2007) is the source of the “Abe and Yak” story with which we began the chapter.

VanderWeele (2014) and Hernández-Díaz, Schisterman, and Hernán (2006) resolve the birth-weight paradox using causal diagrams. An interesting “before-and-after” pair of articles is Wilcox (2001, 2006), written before and after the author learned about causal diagrams; his excitement in the latter article is palpable.

Readers interested in the latest statistics and historical trends in cancer mortality and smoking may consult US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS, 2014), American Cancer Society (2017), and Wingo (2003).

References

American Cancer Society. (2017). Cancer facts and figures. Available at: https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics.html (posted: February 19, 2015).

Blackburn, H., and Labarthe, D. (2012). Stories from the evolution of guidelines for causal inference in epidemiologic associations: 1953–1965. American Journal of Epidemiology 176: 1071–1077. Brandt, A. (2007). The Cigarette Century. Basic Books, New York, NY.