Thursday, January 14, 1965: Hill's Criteria for Causation

     Sir Austin Bradford Hill presents the paper "The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation" at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. 

     "... Hill suggests nine factors to be considered in determining whether a statistical association in a population between exposure to some substance and incidence of some disease or disorder is indicative of causation ..."

     -- Quoted material from "Evidence Matters: Science, Proof and Truth in the Law" (Susan Haack, 2014): @

     -- Chart from "Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology" (2008): @

* PDF of paper: @

* Summary (from Dr. William S. Abruzzi): @

* Summary (from Science-Based Medicine): @ 

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