%0 Journal Article
%T The Mantel-Haenszel procedure. 50 years of the statistical method for confounders control
%A Alice Mannocci
%J Italian Journal of Public Health
%D 2009
%I 
%R 10.2427/5765
%X The Mantel Haenszel procedure represents a simple and useful tool to obtain estimates of association, adjusted for the effect of one or more confounders. Nathan Mantel (1919-2002) was a biostatistician. In 1947 he was hired as a member of a new biometry group at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the National Institute of Health (NIH), Maryland, and in this time he collaborated with William M Haenszel (1910-1998). Haenszel, who was a sociologist, mathematician and statistician, had been working on interpreting the case-control studies of the connection between smoking and lung cancer, requested Mantel¡¯s assistance on how to analyze the retrospective data. In the 1959 they published the ¡°Statistical aspects of the analysis of data from retrospective studies of disease¡± on the Journal of the National Cancer Institute [1].
%U http://ijphjournal.it/article/view/5765