John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method

Lecture 14: the importance of the outlier

Last week we discussed Farr’s Law of Epidemics and the Broad Street outbreak.  In today’s post, we will discuss the importance of the outlier in epidemiology, and on Thursday, we will learn about how Snow addressed substantial critiques of his work.

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