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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-normally
Topics: epidemiology, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: Hill criteria
Antonyms: none provided
History
Established by Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, in 1965.
