At the time of his death, his life was commemorated in obituaries in major national newspapers and scientific journals. Paul Meier received several distinguished awards for his contribution (Marks 2004). Paul Meier's contribution to this important work was frequently acknowledged during his lifetime he occupied key academic positions in medical statistics, and was a board member of many important statistical and public health organizations. 2015).Įdward Lynn Kaplan (1920–2006) and Paul Meier (1924–2011) were graduate students in mathematics at Princeton University, and had the same PhD mentor, Professor John Tukey (1915–2000). Moreover, the Kaplan–Meier method has become the standard way to report patient survival in medical and epidemiological studies, particularly in cancer research (Cox 1972 Peto 1976 van Noorden et al. ( 1994), and the most cited statistical paper (Garfield 1983 Ryan and Woodall 2005 van Noorden et al. With 44,319 Web of Science® citations as of November 2017, the paper is the eleventh most cited scientific paper of the modern era: the second most cited paper in mathematics, ranking just below a bio-informatics paper by Thompson et al. In the June 1958 issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association ( JASA) Edward L Kaplan and Paul Meier published a manuscript describing an innovative statistical method to estimate survival rates when there are incomplete survival observations included in the data base (Kaplan and Meier 1958).
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