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Title: Norman Breslow, an architect of modern biostatistics.
Author: Day NE, Gail MH
Journal: Lifetime Data Anal 13(4):435-438
Year: 2007
Month: December

Abstract: Since the early 1970's, Norman Breslow has made enormous contributions to statistical theory and its applications in epidemiology, and he was a founding member and principal statistician of the Wilms Tumor Study Group, which is credited with great improvements in the treatment and understanding of this disease. Applications of the biostatistical methods that Norm developed have been concentrated on two of the most important areas of biomedical science where statistical thinking is fundamental, clinical trials and chronic disease epidemiology. In these two areas, much of the applied statistical work over the past three decades is based on the conceptual framework of which he was a principal architect.