Paul Meier (statistician)
Paul Meier | |
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| Born | July 24, 1924 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | August 7, 2011 (aged 87) New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Known for | Statistics, experimental design, biostatistics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistician |
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| Doctoral advisor | John Tukey |
Paul Meier (July 24, 1924 – August 7, 2011) was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine.
Meier is known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a nonparametric estimator of survival functions that accounts for changes in sample size over time.
Meier's 1957 evaluation of polio vaccine practices published in Science has been described as influential, and the Kaplan–Meier method is thought to have indirectly extended tens of thousands of lives.