Doug Altman
British statistician (1948-2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas Altman FMedSci (12 July 1948 – 3 June 2018) was an English statistician. He was best known for his work on improving the reliability and reporting of medical research and for highly cited papers on statistical methodology.[1]
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Born | (1948-07-12)12 July 1948 London, UK |
Died | 3 June 2018(2018-06-03) (aged 69) Oxford, UK |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Bath |
Known for | Medical statistics |
Awards | Royal Statistical Society's Bradford Hill Medal (1997); BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistician |
Institutions | Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Cancer Research UK, University of Oxford |
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Altman was professor of statistics in medicine at the University of Oxford, founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group,[2] and co-founder of the international Equator Network for health research reliability.
Altman died of colorectal cancer on 3 June 2018 in Oxford at the age of 69.[3]