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Statistics and the medicine of the future
Author(s) -
Harbron Chris
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2006.00163.x
Subject(s) - computer science , medical statistics , medicine , data science , statistics , mathematics
New drugs that are effective and safe for all become harder and harder to find. Individuals react differently to different medications. Chris Harbron points to a future where drugs will be better targeted. With the help of statisticians we will each have our own designer drugs, no longer off‐the‐shelf but tailored exactly to suit our own individual genome.