Harold Fred Dorn papers, 1932-1970.

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Harold Fred Dorn papers, 1932-1970.

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Contains correspondence, lecture notes, diary, and unpublished manuscripts. Dorn was associated with the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service for over 25 years. The papers reflect his professional occupation and interests in statistical work in epidemiology, population studies and related subjects.

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Dorn, Harold F. (Harold Fred), 1906-1963

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A medical statistician for the U.S. Public Health Service, Harold Fred Dorn was born near Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906. After earning an M.S. in Sociology from Cornell, Dorn developed an interest in statistics. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1933 and in 1934 studied the application of statistical methods to social data at the Galton Laboratory at the University College, London. Dorn's best-known work is his development of a "statistical methodology for large-scale epidemiological ...