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On social structure and science

✍ Scribed by Stephan Fuchs

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 369 KB
Volume: 34
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5061
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199821)34:2<189::aid-jhbs12>3.0.co;2-q

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✦ Synopsis

The clinical trial is one of the pinnacles of modern scientific medicine, but, as J. Rosser Matthews persuasively shows in his Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty, the union of statistics and medicine followed an extended, often stormy, courtship that lasted well over a century and in many ways was a shotgun wedding. Matthews' tale begins with Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis (1787 -1872), who pioneered a numerical method to evaluate

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