Paul Meier (statistician)
| Paul Meier | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 24, 1924 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died |
August 7, 2011 (aged 87) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Fields | Statistician |
| Institutions |
Princeton Johns Hopkins Univ. Chicago Columbia |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College |
| Doctoral advisor | John 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]
Bibliography
- Meier, Paul (1952), Weighted means and lattice designs (Ph.D. Thesis ), Princeton University
- Meier, Paul (1953), "Variance of a Weighted Mean", Biometrics, 9 (1): 59–73, doi:10.2307/3001633
- Meier, Paul (1954), "Analysis of Simple Lattice Designs with Unequal Sets of Replications", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 49 (268): 786–813, doi:10.2307/2281540
- Meier P (1957), "Safety testing of a poliomyelitis vaccine", Science, 125 (3257): 1067–71, doi:10.1126/science.125.3257.1067
- Lasagna L, Meier P (1958), "Clinical evaluation of new drugs", Annual Review of Medicine, 9: 347–54, doi:10.1146/annurev.me.09.020158.002023
- Kaplan, E. L.; Meier, Paul (1958), "Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 53 (282): 457–481, doi:10.2307/2281868
- Meier, Paul (1971), "Report of the Evaluation Committee on the University of Chicago Department of Statistics", The American Statistician, 25 (3): 17–24, doi:10.2307/2683317
- Meier, Paul (1975), "Statistics and medical experimentation", Biometrics, 31 (2): 511–529, doi:10.2307/2529434
- Meier, Paul (1976), "Estimation of a distribution function from incomplete observations", Perspectives in Probability and Statistics, In Honor of M. S. Bartlett, Academic Press, pp. 67–88
- Meier, Paul (1977), "The biggest health experiment ever: The 1954 field trial of the Salk Poliomyelitis vaccine", Statistics: A Guide to the Study of the Biological and Health Sciences, Holden-Day Inc, pp. 88–100
- Meier, Paul (1979), "Terminating a trial: The ethical problem", Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 25: 633–640
- Meier, Paul; Zabell, Sandy (1980), "Benjamin Pierce and the Howland will", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75 (371): 497–506, doi:10.2307/2287637
- Meier, Paul (1981), "Jerome Cornfield and the methodology of clinical trials", Controlled Clinical Trials, 1 (4): 339–345, doi:10.1016/0197-2456(81)90038-6
- Meier, Paul (1981), "Stratification in the design of a clinical trial", Controlled Clinical Trials, 1 (4): 355–361, doi:10.1016/0197-2456(81)90040-4
- Meier, Paul (1982), "Current research in statistical methodology for clinical trials", Biometrics -- Proceedings of Current Topics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology: A Memorial Symposium in Honor of Jerome Cornfield, The Biometric Society, pp. 141–150
- Meier, Paul (1983), Shapiro, Stanley H.; Louis, Thomas A., eds., "Statistical analysis of clinical trials", Clinical Trials. Issues and Approaches, Marcel Dekker, pp. 155–189
- Meier, Paul (1984), "Commentary on evaluation of therapies", Statistics in Medicine, 3: 473–475, doi:10.1002/sim.4780030431
- Meier, Paul (1984), Rao, Poduri S. R. S.; Sedransk, Joseph, eds., "William G. Cochran and public health", W. G. Cochran's Impact on Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 73–81
- Gilliland, Dennis C.; Meier, Paul (1986), DeGroot, Morris H.; Fienberg, Stephen E.; Kadane, Joseph B., eds., "The probability of reversal in contested elections", Statistics and the Law, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 391–411
- Meier, Paul (1986), "Damned liars and expert witnesses", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (394): 269–276, doi:10.2307/2289214
- Meier, Paul; Sacks, Jerome; Zabell, Sandy L. (1986), DeGroot, Morris H.; Fienberg, Stephen E.; Kadane, Joseph B., eds., "What happened in Hazelwood: Statistics, employment discrimination, and the 80 percent rule", Statistics and the Law, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1–40
- Beach, Michael L.; Meier, Paul (1989), "Choosing covariates in the analysis of clinical trials", Controlled Clinical Trials, 10 (4): 161–175, doi:10.1016/0197-2456(89)90055-X
- Meier, Paul (1990), "Polio trial: An early efficient clinical trial", Statistics in Medicine, 9: 13–16, doi:10.1002/sim.4780090107
- Meier, Paul (1990), "The experimental evaluation of relative risk", Chance, 3 (4): 28–32
- Meier, Paul; Dinardo, Lawrence C. (1990), "Simpson's paradox in employment litigation", ASA Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, pp. 66–69
- Meier, Paul (1993), "Illusion and reality in the analysis of clinical trials", Statistics in Medicine, 12 (15–16): 1519–1519, doi:10.1002/sim.4780121518
- Meier, Paul; Karrison, Theodore; Chappell, Rick; Xie, Hui (2004), "The Price of Kaplan-Meier", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99 (467): 890–896, doi:10.1198/016214504000001259
References
- ↑ Hevesi, Dennis (August 12, 2011), "Paul Meier, Statistician Who Revolutionized Medical Trials, Dies at 87", The New York Times
- ↑ David Brown (August 10, 2011). "Paul Meier, biostatistician and co-inventor of a famous graph, dies at 87". Washington Post.
- ↑ "Paul Meier, Obituary". The Daily Telegraph. October 2, 2011.
- ↑ Kaplan, E. L.; Meier, P.: Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. J. Amer. Statist. Assn. 53:457–481, 1958. JSTOR 2281868
- ↑ Kaplan, E.L. in a retrospective on the seminal paper in "This week's citation classic". Current Contents 24, 14 (1983).Available from UPenn as PDF.
- ↑ Harry M Marks (2004), "A conversation with Paul Meier" (PDF), Clinical Trials, 1: 131–138, doi:10.1191/1740774504cn011xx
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