I was honoured to have written the first proper paper on sample size
calculations for proteomic profilling studies with Doug:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22499705
and our findings were implemented in R and is freely available here:
https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/clippda.html
Fare thee well, Doug.
Stephen
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Martin Bland <
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> Dear friends,
>
> I am very sad to tell you that my dear friend and collaborator Doug Altman
> passed away today. We were working together to the end and exchanged
> emails only on Friday.
>
> Doug and I have been friends since 1972 and have published together 100
> times, with more in draft. They will be finished. Doug is one of the most
> influential medical statisticians of the past 40 years and did so much to
> improve the methodological quality of medical research, thus benefiting
> thousands of lives.
>
> Doug had been treated for bowel cancer. Recently, he told me that there
> were metastases, but I thought we still had time. I am bereft.
>
> Martin
>
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