William haenszel biography
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A day to remember: William M. Haenszel
It was 106 years ago today when William Haenszel was born in Rochester, New York.
William Manning Haenszel (June 19, 1910 – March 13, 1998) was an American epidemiologist who developed the first national system to track cancer cases and their possible causes (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results or SEER).
William haenszel biography
He was an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the American Association For the Advancement of Science. He worked at the National Cancer Institute from 1952 to 1976, when he became a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Illinois.
With Nathan Mantel, he co-authored the Mantel-Haenszel statistical test for omitted variables.[1]
In the 1970's, when the Nixon Administration declared a ''war on cancer,'' William Haenszel, as chief of biometry -- the statistical analysis of biological data -- set out to record individual cases, to track them from diagnosis to death,