Paul Meier (statistician)

Paul Meier
Born July 24, 1924(1924-07-24)
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died August 7, 2011(2011-08-07) (aged 87)
New York City, USA
Residence New York City, USA
Fields Statistician
Institutions Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Univ. Chicago
Columbia
Alma mater Oberlin College
Doctoral advisor Tukey
Known for Statistics, Experimental Design

Paul Meier (July 24, 1924 – August 7, 2011)[1] was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine.[2][3] He is also known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator,[4][5] a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment.[6]

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