Steven N. Goodman (born 1954) is an American Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Medicine at the

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. He has extensively contributed to foundations of scientific and statistical inference within the biosciences, and in 1999 he coined the term "

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He has made numerous contributions to the methods of clinical research, comparative effectiveness, meta analysis, and scientific inference, in addition to works on scientific evidence.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodman, Steven American public health doctors Harvard University alumni New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni Living people Stanford University School of Medicine faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine 1954 births