“Let’s start with a statistic: almost 2,000 citations a year. One paper by Paul Meier,…has been cited more often, by a wide margin, than any other paper in the field. At last count it was the fifth most cited research paper of all time, in any field.”-John Easton
“I have been so fortunate and privileged to know this truly great, wonderful, helpful, kind man who was always so generous with his skills and wise advice,” said toxoplasmosis expert Rima McLeod, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University. “He is one of the founding fathers and giants of statistics in the past century. He was at the same time simply a modest, helpful, supportive and warm colleague who only let you know how special he was by the quality and content of what he said and wrote.”
From New York Times, revolutionary statistician
He was key, she added, in the “design, establishment, and implementation of the only randomized clinical trial of treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis. This study established that treatment in the first year of life markedly improves outcomes for many of those with this disease, leading to normal, productive lives rather than significant medical problems. It changed the face of this disease and improved the lives for many persons.”
