Paul Meier (statistician)
American biostatistician
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursMeier 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.
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