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Oct 1, 2007 · In epidemiology, it is upon William Farr's shoulders, among others, that we stand today. For this reason, on November 30, 2007, epidemiologists around the world should toast William Farr on the occasion of his 200th birthday.
- DE Lilienfeld
- 2007
Oct 22, 2007 · Download Citation | On Oct 22, 2007, DE Lilienfeld published Celebration: William Farr (1807-1883)-An Appreciation on the 200th Anniversary of His Birth | Find, read and cite all the research you ...
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Dec 30, 2014 · In a study of smallpox in the mid-1800s, pioneering British epidemiologist William Farr made the astonishing discovery that the rate and duration of the epidemic’s rise was mirrored in its decline. More than 150 years later, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health have taken Farr’s Law out of retirement and put it to new purpose: to project the trajectory of the drug overdose ...
Jan 1, 2017 · William Farr, born in Kenley, Shropshire on 30 November 1807, died in London on 14 April 1883, was a statistician in the General Register Office who had been appointed in 1840 as ‘compiler of abstracts’ and was two years later made Statistical Superintendent, a post he held until his retirement in 1880. He pioneered the quantitative study ...
FARR, WILLIAM (1807–1883) William Farr, a physician by training, was the most prominent expert in vital statistics in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. After completing his medical studies in London and in Paris, where he became a disciple of Dr. Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and his méthode numérique, Farr set up a practice as a pharmacist in 1833.
William Farr Biography. William Farr (November 30, 1807 - April 14, 1883) was a nineteenth century British epidemiologist. He was born in Kenley, Shropshire, England to poor parents. He was effectively adopted by a local squire, Joseph Pryce, when Farr and his family moved to Dorrington. In 1826 he took a job as a dresser in Shrewsbury ...
William Farr, 1807-1883. No. 177. William Farr is regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics. Upon return from the Crimean War, Nightingale enlisted Farr’s help to process the data she’d collected and worked with him to design her famous ‘rose’ or ‘coxcomb’ diagram. The diagram presented the shocking reality of army ...
