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Stephen L. George

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Stephen L. George, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. His work has focused on the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials and other biomedical studies, including cancer trials, sequential methods and prognostic-factor analysis. Early in his career he co-authored the 1970 Gehan and George study of body surface area estimation.

Qualifications
PhD
Specialty
Biostatistics and clinical trials
Institutions
Duke University School of Medicine

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Gehan and George BSA Formula

Formula originally described by Stephen L. George.

Used for: General height-weight BSA estimation; equation published in Cancer Chemotherapy Reports

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Original research

Gehan EA, George SL. Estimation of human body surface area from height and weight. Cancer Chemotherapy Reports. 1970;54(4):225-235

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BiostatisticsClinical trialsBody surface area estimationOncology statistics

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