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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 3, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(3):536-537; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl070
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Commentary: Statistical analysis or biological analysis as tools for understanding biological causes

R C Lewontin

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MA, USA

E-mail: lewontin@oeb.harvard.edu

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‘The Analysis of Variance and the Analysis of Causes’1 was a paper of its time. The problem it addressed was how the observed variation in phenotype among human individuals and groups was analysed in an attempt to separate and assign ‘importance’ to the roles of genetic and environmental variation. It dealt with the conceptual errors involved in the formulation of the problem and in the understanding of the statistical methodology then available to investigate the question. Thirty-five years ago, when that essay and the two papers in the American Journal of Human genetics that were its instigation . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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