Doug Altman
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]
Doug Altman | |
|---|---|
 Professor Douglas Altman | |
| Born | 12 July 1948 London, UK |
| Died | 3 June 2018 (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 |
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]
References
- ↑ "Citation for 2015 British Medical Journal Awards 2015". Archived from the original on 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ↑ Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit biography
- ↑ "JISCMail - ALLSTAT Archives".
Other websites
- Doug Altman's profile at ISI Highly Cited Researcher website Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Doug Altman's profile at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine
- CONSORT Statement webpage Archived 2019-05-09 at the Wayback Machine