Statistics in Medical Research - Edmund A Gehan - Bog

This fascinating book chronicles the fundamental events that shaped the advancement of the study of statistics and development of clinical trials. It reviews statistics from the birth of probability theories around the gambling tables, through the introduction of statistics into medicine, and up to the latest clinical trials. Interweaving a comprehensive history of clinical research over the centuries, the authors include lively bibliographies of the people responsible for the innovative concepts that constitute the foundation of modern statistics.