Norman Breslow, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetNorman Breslow
American statistician
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1941
Date of Death: 09-Dec-2015
Profession: statistician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Norman Breslow
- Norman Edward Breslow (February 21, 1941 – December 9, 2015) was an American statistician and medical researcher.
- At the time of his death, he was Professor (Emeritus) of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, of the University of Washington.
- He is co-author or author of hundreds of published works during 1967 to 2015.Among his many accomplishments is his work with co-author Nicholas Day that developed and popularized the use of case-control matched sample research designs, in the two-volume work Statistical Methods in Cancer Research.
- This was with view that matched sample studies have a role within larger program of many types of studies, in making progress on a vast and important problem like cancer.
- Matched sample studies can quickly and cheaply test some hypothesized relationships, but their apparent findings are not definitive, and there's much they cannot accomplish.
- Their results, however, can inform the design of slow and expensive longitudinal large-cohort studies that are definitive, for example.
- Dose-response studies and other studies, too, are elements of a rational scientific program to address cancer.
- In 2015, he died of prostate cancer.Breslow was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of the U.K.
- His other professional awards an honors include: ``the Speigelman Gold Medal Award from the American Public Health Association (1978); the Snedecor Award (1995) and R.A.
- Fisher Award (1995) from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies; the Nathan Mantel Award (2002) from the ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology; the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from Harvard University (2008); and the Medal of Honor, International Agency for Research on Cancer (2005)".
- He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the same time as his father, Lester Breslow.
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