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Edward Lynn Kaplan | |
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Born | May 11, 1920 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Died | September 26, 2006 (aged 86) Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. |
Citizenship | American |
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Known for | Kaplan–Meier survival curve |
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Thesis | Infinite Permutations of Stationary Random Sequences (1950) |
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Edward Lynn Kaplan (May 11, 1920 – September 26, 2006)[1] was a mathematician most famous for the Kaplan–Meier estimator,[2] developed together with Paul Meier.