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WILEY REFERENCE SERIES IN BIOSTATISTICS
Biostatistics in Clincal Trials

Editors:
Carol K. Redmond, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Theodore Colton, Boston University, USA

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Published: March 2001

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Carol K. Redmond, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Carol Redmond earned an M.S. and Sc.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health since 1967 and served as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Biostatistics from 1983 through 1996. She is presently Distinguished Service Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Public Health. From 1978 to 1994 she was the Founding Director of the Biostatistical Center for the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP), a cooperative clinical trial group that has conducted landmark randomized multicenter clinical trials for treatment and prevention of breast cancer. She has authored or co-authored more than 160 articles in biostatistical or biomedical publications. She is a previous member of the Editorial Boards for Statistics in Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Redmond has been the recipient of a number of awards and honors including election as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American College of Epidemiology. She has served as elected chair of the Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association and is currently President-Elect of the Biometric Society (Eastern North American Region) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics. She has also participated in numerous peer review groups, advisory panels, and data monitoring committees for government and private agencies, including several of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Centers for Disease Control.

Theodore Colton, Boston University, USA
Theodore Colton earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of North Carolina and an Sc.D. in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and Boston University School of Public Health where he is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He was twice the recipient of fellowship awards, from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, for study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was one of the founding editors in 1981 of the Wiley Journal Statistics in Medicine and has served as editor through 1997, nurturing the growth of the journal from 381 pages in four issues in 1982 to 2972 pages in twenty-four issues in 1997. He is author of the textbook, Statistics in Medicine. Dr. Colton has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine and has been a biostatistical consultant to the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he has served as president of Biometrics (Eastern North-American Region) and the Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association. He has served and continues to serve on numerous advisory committees and peer review groups for governmental agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Contributors
D G Altman ICRF Medical Statistics Group, UK		C Anello Rockville, USA
V C Arena University of Pittsburgh, USA		D Ashby St Bartholomews & Royal School of Medicine, UK
J Baron Dartmouth Medical School, USA		C Begg Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
W C Blackwelder Bethesda, USA		J L Bryant NSABP, Pittsburgh, USA
M Buyse International Institute for Drug Development, Belgium		I Chalmers UK Cochrane Centre, UK
J F Collins Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Perry Point, USA		J P Costantino University of Pittsburgh, USA
W Cronin NSABP, Pittsburgh, USA		C E Davis University of North Carolina, USA
S J Day Leo Laboratories, UK		V de Gruttola Harvard School of Public Health, USA
D L DeMets University of Wisconsin, USA		D O Dixon National Institute of Health, USA
A Donner University of Western Ontario, Canada		F Ederer The EMMES Corporation, USA
J Ellenberg Westat, USA		S Evans Medicines Control Agency, UK
K Facey Health Technology Board for Scotland, UK		J R Feussner VA Cooperative Studies Program, USA
B Fisher NSABP, Pittsburgh, USA		L D Fisher University of Washington, USA
T R Fleming University of Washington, USA		M Foulkes FDA CBER, USA
R G Frank Harvard Medical School, USA		S Freels University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
L M Friedman Rockledge Center, USA		E A Gehan Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
N Geller National Institute of Health, USA		S George Duke University Medical Center, USA
M J Godley Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, UK		S B Green Case Western Reserve University, USA
E Halloran Emory University, USA		W G Henderson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines, USA
C H Hennekens Harvard University, USA		J Heyse Merck and Co., Inc., USA
M D Hughes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK		J Hutton University of Warwick, UK
D R Jones University of Leicester, UK		N Klar Cancer Care Ontario, Canada
G Knatterud Maryland Medical Research Institute, USA		T Koepsell University of Washington, USA
E Lakatos Forest Laboratories, New York, USA		J R Lave University of Pittsburgh, USA
P W Lavori Stanford University, USA		J Lewis Medicines Control Agency, UK
J Massaro Quintiles Inc, USA		E McFadden ECOG Coordinating Center, USA
P Meier Columbia University, USA		C Meinert John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA
R Mick University of Pennsylvania, USA		D Moher University of Ottowa, Canada
B J Morgan University of Kent at Canterbury, UK		D D V Morgan Hoechst Marion Roussel, UK
G D Murray University of Edinburgh, UK		P C O'Brien Mayo Clinic, USA
P Peduzzi Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, USA		S Piantadosi Johns Hopkins University, USA
R L Prentice Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA		P C Prorok National Cancer Institute, USA
H Rockette University of Pittsburgh, USA		L V Rubinstein National Instutue of Health, USA
L M Ryan Harvard School of Public Health, USA		D L Sackett University of Oxford, UK
M R Sather Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Albuquerque, USA		M Schneiderman deceased April 1996,
S Senn University College London, UK		S Silagy Australasian Cochrane Centre, Australia
R Simon National Institute of Health, USA		P Skerrett Harvard Medical School, USA
C Smith Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, UK		K Soper Merck and Co., Inc., USA
B E Storer Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA		I Sutherland Cambridge, UK
R J Sylvester EORTC Data Center, Belgium		P F Thall M D Anderson Cancer Center, USA
S G Thompson MRC Biostatistics Unit, UK		R S Ungerleider Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, USA
J Ware Harvard School of Public Health, USA		L Weissfeld University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Whitehead University of Reading, UK		H S Wieand University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Wittes Statistics Collaborative, USA		S Zeger John Hopkins University, USA

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