How Medical Statistics has been established at the University of Freiburg: a historical perspective
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Schumacher, Martin
- Source
- GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Vol 1, Iss 2, p Doc13 (2005)
- Subject
- medical statistics
Salk Polio Vaccine Trial
historical development
Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
R858-859.7
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
- Language
- German
English
- ISSN
- 1860-9171
This contribution gives an outline on the reasons why the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Freiburg established an Institute of Medical Statistics and Documentation about fourty years ago as one of the first in Germany. It will be shown that the Professor of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at that time initiated and promoted this development being himself motivated by the successful implementation of a vaccine against poliomyelitis through rigorous design, conduct and statistical analysis of a large scale field trial.