“Without the aid of statistics nothing like real medicine is possible.”

— Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Louis PCA. Medical statistics. Am J Med Sci 1837;21:525-8.
Quoted in Evidence-based medicine: old French wine with a new Canadian label? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1296268/, P K Rangachari, J R Soc Med. 1997 May; 90(5): 280–284.

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