Lilienfeld David Eugene
Department of Health Policy and Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Epidemiology. 2007 Jul;18(4):507-14; discussion 515-6. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318063eea8.
This paper explores the relationship between 2 persons much involved in the development of modern epidemiology, Jacob Yerushalmy and Abraham M. Lilienfeld. The formation of that relationship is described and the resulting influences by each individual on the other's professional work are discussed. Interactions between these 2 men contributed to several areas of epidemiologic development, including the effects of misclassification on observational study data, elements of epidemiologic causal inference, population-based linked databases, and the adaptation of statistical techniques by the epidemiology community. The impact of their association and its implications for modern epidemiologists are considered.
本文探讨了两位在现代流行病学发展中深度参与的人物——雅各布·耶鲁沙尔米（Jacob Yerushalmy）和亚伯拉罕·M·利连菲尔德（Abraham M. Lilienfeld）之间的关系。描述了这种关系的形成，并讨论了两人对彼此专业工作所产生的影响。这两人之间的互动推动了流行病学发展的多个领域，包括错误分类对观察性研究数据的影响、流行病学因果推断的要素、基于人群的关联数据库，以及流行病学领域对统计技术的应用。文中还考虑了他们之间关联的影响及其对现代流行病学家的启示。
