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Title: Dave Byar's contribution to epidemiology.
Author: Gail MH
Journal: Control Clin Trials 16(4):230-248
Year: 1995
Month: August

Abstract: Some of Dave Byar's personal qualities and his scientific approach are described. His work on substantive epidemiologic projects is mentioned briefly. There follows a review of his work on theoretical issues, including extentions of the Mantel-Haenszel procedure and other contingency table methods, confounding, and estimation of attributable and absolute risk from case-control data.