Comments on: RIP Paul Meier, father of the randomized trial http://boingboing.net/2011/08/14/rip-paul-meier-father-of-the-randomized-trial.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 17:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Laika (Jacqueline) http://boingboing.net/2011/08/14/rip-paul-meier-father-of-the-randomized-trial.html#comment-1188255 Laika (Jacqueline) Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113413#comment-1188255 Paul Meier truly deserves some respect. Not for being the father of the RCT though, but for his creation of the Kaplan-Meier Estimator and for espousal of randomization as an essential element in clinical trials and his criticism of flawed trials. But thanks to Boing Boing, Google now thinks Paul invented the RCT. ;)  Anyway, the title intrigued me and I did a little digging of my own. Here is my post: http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/rip-statistician-paul-meier-foster-parent-not-father-of-the-rct/ Paul Meier truly deserves some respect. Not for being the father of the RCT though, but for his creation of the Kaplan-Meier Estimator and for espousal of randomization as an essential element in clinical trials and his criticism of flawed trials. But thanks to Boing Boing, Google now thinks Paul invented the RCT. ;) 
Anyway, the title intrigued me and I did a little digging of my own. Here is my post:
http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/rip-statistician-paul-meier-foster-parent-not-father-of-the-rct/

]]> By: tubacat http://boingboing.net/2011/08/14/rip-paul-meier-father-of-the-randomized-trial.html#comment-1188222 tubacat Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113413#comment-1188222 Awww...the man who invented randomized trials deserves some love and respect (and at least one comment!). Thank you  Dr Meier - without you, we wouldn't know what really worked or didn't work, in medicine and many other areas. Awww…the man who invented randomized trials deserves some love and respect (and at least one comment!).
Thank you  Dr Meier – without you, we wouldn’t know what really worked or didn’t work, in medicine and many other areas.

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