British statistician who specializes in medical statistics Peter Armitage has passed away. He was president of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics in 1990–1991, and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics.
Peter Armitage (statistician) Cause of death
Peter Armitage lived in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and died on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at the age of 99.
Peter Armitage (statistician) obituary information
Peter Armitage was born on June 15, 1924, in the United Kingdom, and attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War. He joined the weapons procurement agency, the Ministry of Supply where he worked on statistical problems with George Barnard.
Peter Armitage studies and then worked as a statistician for the Medical Research Council from 1947 to 1961. From 1961 to 1976, he was Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he succeeded Austin Bradford Hill. His main work there was on sequential analysis. 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.
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