Richard Peto

Why do we need some large, simple randomized trials?

Blood pressure, stroke, and coronary heart disease

Diet, life-style, and mortality in China: a study of the characteristics of 65 Chinese counties

This report presents data from a number of recent surveys undertaken in China including the 1983 ecological survey the 1973-1975 mortality survey and the 1984 nitrosamine survey...

The Magic of Randomization versus the Myth of Real-World Evidence

Nonrandomized observational analyses have been promoted as alternatives to randomized clinical trials. However, randomization ensures balance between groups, whereas nonrandomiz...

Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies

Wellcome Trust, MRC, BHF, CR-UK, Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, Chinese MoST and NSFC.

Beta blockade during and after myocardial infarction: An overview of the randomized trials

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

UK Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, National Institute for Health Research, US National Institutes of Health.

Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. Analysis and examples

Conservatism of the approximation sigma (O-E)2-E in the logrank test for survival data or tumor incidence data.