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Excerpt from Ethical Procedures in Comparative Evaluation of Drugs
The comparison of sampled distributions is one of the classical problems of statistics. Evaluation of any technique for doing so depends at least implicitly on an assumed cost function. In one of the most impor tant applications, that of choosing treatments for the ailments of man, costs are measured in suffering and death, and must be accorded primary importance. In this lecture, I would like to address a highly simplified but in fact prototypical situation of this kind. It is that in which two drugs, A and B, are available for a specified illness, their actions are unequivocal or dichotomic: success or failure, and this action is on a time scale short compared to that on which patients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
