Doug Altman

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Doug Altman
Professor Douglas Altman
Born(1948-07-12)12 July 1948
London, UK
Died3 June 2018(2018-06-03) (aged 69)
Oxford, UK
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Bath
Known forMedical statistics
AwardsRoyal Statistical Society's Bradford Hill Medal (1997); BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistician
InstitutionsCentre for Statistics in Medicine, Cancer Research UK, University of Oxford

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]

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]

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  1. "Citation for 2015 British Medical Journal Awards 2015". Archived from the original on 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  2. Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit biography
  3. "JISCMail - ALLSTAT Archives".

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