Paul Meier

Statistician, Academic

1924 – 2011

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Who was Paul Meier?

Paul Meier was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine. He is also known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment.

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Born
Jul 24, 1924
Newark
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Oberlin College
  • PhD, Princeton University
    Statistics
    ( - 1952)
Lived in
  • New York City
    ( - 2011/08/07)
Died
Aug 7, 2011
New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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