Word: biostatistician
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BORN: May 2, 1941, New Orleans EDUCATION: U of Southwestern Louisiana, B.S., 1962; U of Kansas, M.A., 1964; U of Connecticut, M.S., 1969 FAMILY: Wife, Judith; three children RELIGION: Congregationalist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Medical researcher; biostatistician; professor POLITICAL CAREER: Connecticut Senate, 1991-93; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1992, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 696, Higganum...
BORN: Dec. 16, 1948, Columbia, Mo. EDUCATION: Duke U, B.A., 1970; Princeton U, M.A., 1973; U of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1978; U of Maryland, M.S., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Martha Louise Elks; two children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Biostatistician; professor POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 93668, Lubbock...
Three of the article's many authors are affiliated with Harvard: Janet M. Grimes, a biostatistician at the School of Public Health, Martin S. Hirsch, professor of medicine, and Stephen W. Lagakos, professor of biostatistics...
...evidence of the value of lumpectomies. His research was part of a much larger study, and when his statistics are removed, the conclusions do not change. And other studies have had the same results. Even with such assurances, many patients were still uneasy. Said Donna Brogan, an Emory University biostatistician who had a lumpectomy in 1986: "The whole research enterprise operates on trust among scientists. When someone betrays that trust, it is upsetting...
...jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease and cancer -- which account...