Susan: Both of us slipped into statistics more accidentally than deliberately. Jonas: My family business background, steeped in the New York City 7th Avenue textile trade, led me to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate. I chose statistics as a major, as I had always enjoyed math. Wanting to earn extra money while at Penn, I signed on to the University of Pennsylvania Periodic Health Examination project under the tutelage of Stanley Schor (famous for the "Mystic Statistic," a regular JAMA piece aimed at teaching clinicians some basic statistics). This experience introduced me to the application of statistics to medicine.
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