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Obituary: Norman Edward Breslow. Key figure in the foundation of modern biostatistics. (English) Zbl 1369.01030

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01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

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Breslow, Norman Edward
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[1] Breslow, On large sample sequential analysis with application to survivorship data, Journal of Applied Probability 6 pp 261– (1969) · Zbl 0193.17603 · doi:10.1017/S0021900200032782
[2] Breslow, A generalized Kruskal-Wallis test for comparing K samples subject to unequal patterns of censorship, Biometrika 57 pp 579– (1970) · Zbl 0215.26403 · doi:10.1093/biomet/57.3.579
[3] Breslow, Discussion of the paper by D. R. Cox, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 34 pp 216– (1972)
[4] Breslow, Odds ratio estimators when the data are sparse, Biometrika 68 pp 73– (1981) · Zbl 0461.62031 · doi:10.1093/biomet/68.1.73
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[9] Breslow, Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models, Journal of the American Statistical Association 88 pp 9– (1993) · Zbl 0775.62195
[10] Breslow, A large sample study of the life table and product limit estimates under random censorship, Annals of Statistics 2 pp 437– (1974) · Zbl 0283.62023 · doi:10.1214/aos/1176342705
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[17] Breslow, Long-Term and Short-Term Assays for Carcinogens: A Critical Appraisal (1986)
[18] Breslow, Nonparametric estimation of relative mortality functions, Journal of Chronic Diseases 40 (Suppl. 2) pp 89S– (1987) · doi:10.1016/S0021-9681(87)80012-7
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[32] Sellke, Sequential analysis of the proportional hazards model, Biometrika 70 pp 315– (1983) · Zbl 0528.62068 · doi:10.1093/biomet/70.2.315
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[34] Thomas, Methods of cohort analysis: appraisal by application to asbestos mining, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 140 pp 469– (1977) · doi:10.2307/2345280
[35] Watts, Norman Edward Breslow, The Lancet 387 pp 842– (2016) · doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00518-3
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