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The women founders of the social sciences

โœ Scribed by Mary O. Furner

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
369 KB
Volume
34
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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โœฆ 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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