Peter Armitage
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Peter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics. From 1961-76 he was Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he succeeded Austin Bradford Hill. He moved to Oxford as Professor of Biomathematics and became Professor of Applied Statistics and head of the new Department of Statistics, retiring in 1990. He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics.
External links
- A brief biography at wiley.co.uk (publisher of the Encyclopedia of Biostatics) (http://www.wiley.co.uk/eob/armitage.html)it:Peter Armitage