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Re: st: RE: RE: Spaghetti Plots
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: RE: Spaghetti Plots
Date
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:10:18 +0100
On 3 MFómh 2010, at 18:20, Lachenbruch, Peter wrote:
What's also mildly amusing is that there's an outstanding
pharmacologist named Louis Lasagna - no relation to spaghetti or any
other plots that I know of.
He also propounded one of the more amusing laws of research:
L: Lasagna's Law
It was one of the pioneers in clinical pharmacology, the American
Louis Lasagna, who described in 1970 a today's still well-known
phenomenon in clinical trials: The incidence of patient availability
sharply decreases when a clinical trial begins and returns to its
original level as soon as the trial is completed. For illustration, in
1979 Lasagna commented on a trial where out of 8,000 patients
theoretically available just 100 patients in the end participated.
Later this phenomenon was popurlarly called Lasagna's Law.
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