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About Peter Armitage
- Peter Armitage CBE (born 15 July 1924) is a statistician specialising in medical statistics. Peter Armitage 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. After the war he resumed his studies and then worked as a statistician for the Medical Research Council from 1947-61.
- From 1961-76 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.
- He was president of the Royal Statistical Society in 1982-4.
- He was president of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics in 1990-1991.
- He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics.
- He lives in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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