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Contemporary epidemiology owes most of its development to the efforts of epidemiologists and biostatisticians in the middle of the twentieth century to address the problem of chronic, noncommunicable disease latency. For example, cancer may not manifest itself until 20 years or more after causal exposures. Latency thus impedes efforts to establish cause-and-effect relationships.