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Peter Armitage (statistician)

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British statistician (1924–2024)

Peter Armitage CBE
Born	(1924-06-15)15 June 1924 Huddersfield, England
Died	14 February 2024(2024-02-14) (aged 99)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Cochran–Armitage test for trend
Awards	Guy Medal (bronze, 1962) (silver, 1978) (gold, 1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Peter ArmitageCBE (15 June 1924 – 14 February 2024) was a Britishstatistician who specialised inmedical statistics.

Life and career

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Peter Armitage was born inHuddersfield, and was educated atHuddersfield College, before going on to read mathematics atTrinity College, Cambridge.^[1] Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War. He joined the weapons procurement agency, theMinistry of Supply where he worked on statistical problems withGeorge Barnard.

After the war he resumed his studies and then worked as a statistician for theMedical Research Council from 1947 to 1961.^[1] From 1961 to 1976, he was Professor of Medical Statistics at theLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he succeededAustin Bradford Hill.^[1] His main work there was onsequential 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.^[1] He was president of theRoyal Statistical Society in 1982–4.^[1] He was president of theInternational Society for Clinical Biostatistics in 1990–1991, and editor-in-chief of theEncyclopedia of Biostatistics.

Armitage lived inWallingford, Oxfordshire, and died on 14 February 2024, at the age of 99.^[2]

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e"Peter Armitage, 1924–2024".Royal Statistical Society. 26 February 2024. Retrieved4 March 2024.
^Farewell, Vern (16 February 2024)."Remembering Peter Armitage".MRC Biostatistics Unit. Retrieved17 February 2024.

Basic career information is in the entry in
- Who's Who 2005
There are recollections in
- Peter Armitage "Purposes, methods, philosophies",Significance Volume 1 Issue 4 Page 170 - December 2004

External links

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A brief biography at wiley.co.uk (publisher of the Encyclopedia of Biostatics)
There is a photograph at the 'Peter Armitage on thePortraits of Statisticians' page

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19th century	1834–1836The Marquess of Lansdowne 1836–1838Sir Charles Lemon, Bt 1838–1840The Earl FitzWilliam 1840–1842Viscount Sandon 1842–1843The Marquess of Lansdowne 1843–1845Lord Ashley 1845–1847The Lord Monteagle of Brandon 1847–1849The Earl FitzWilliam 1849–1851The Earl of Harrowby 1851–1853The Lord Overstone 1853–1855The Earl FitzWilliam 1855–1857The Earl of Harrowby 1857–1859Lord Stanley 1859–1861Lord John Russell 1861–1863Sir John Pakington, Bt 1863–1865William Henry Sykes 1865–1867The Lord Houghton 1867–1869William Ewart Gladstone 1869–1871William Newmarch 1871–1873William Farr 1873–1875William Guy 1875–1877James Heywood 1877–1879George Shaw-Lefevre 1879–1880Thomas Brassey 1880–1882James Caird 1882–1884Robert Giffen 1884–1886Rawson W. Rawson 1886–1888George Goschen 1888–1890Thomas Graham Balfour 1890–1892Frederic J. Mouat 1892–1894Charles Booth 1894–1896The Lord Farrer 1896–1897John Biddulph Martin 1897Alfred Edmund Bateman 1897–1899Leonard Courtney 1899–1900Henry Fowler 1900–1902The Lord Avebury
20th century	1902–1904Patrick George Craigie 1904–1905Sir Francis Powell, Bt 1905–1906The Earl of Onslow 1906–1907Richard Martin 1907–1909Sir Charles Dilke, Bt 1909–1910Jervoise Athelstane Baines 1910–1912Lord George Hamilton 1912–1914Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1914–1915The Lord Welby 1915–1916Lord George Hamilton 1916–1918Bernard Mallet,Registrar General 1918–1920Herbert Samuel 1920–1922R. Henry Rew 1922–1924The Lord Emmott 1924–1926Udny Yule 1926–1928The Viscount D'Abernon 1928–1930A. William Flux 1930–1932Sir Josiah Stamp 1932–1934The Lord Meston 1934–1936Major Greenwood 1936–1938The Lord Kennet 1938–1940Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941Henry William Macrosty 1941Hector Leak 1941–1943William Beveridge 1943–1945Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947The Lord Woolton 1947–1949David Heron 1949–1950Sir Geoffrey Heyworth 1950–1952Austin Bradford Hill 1952–1954Ronald Fisher 1954–1955The Lord Piercy 1955–1957Egon Pearson 1957–1959Harry Campion 1959–1960Hugh Beaver 1960–1962Maurice Kendall 1962–1964Joseph Oscar Irwin 1964–1965Sir Paul Chambers 1965–1966L. H. C. Tippett 1966–1967M. S. Bartlett 1967–1968Frank Yates 1968–1969Arthur Cockfield 1969–1970R. G. D. Allen 1970–1971Bernard Benjamin 1971–1972George Alfred Barnard 1972–1973Harold Wilson 1973–1974D. J. Finney 1974–1975Henry Daniels 1975–1977Stella Cunliffe 1977–1978Henry Wynn 1978–1980Sir Claus Moser 1980–1982David Cox 1982–1984Peter Armitage 1984–1985Walter Bodmer 1985–1986John Nelder 1986–1987James Durbin 1987–1989John Kingman 1989–1991Peter G. Moore 1991–1993T. M. F. Smith 1993–1995D. J. Bartholomew 1995–1997Adrian Smith 1997–1999Robert Nicholas Curnow 1999–2001Denise Lievesley
21st century	2001–2003Peter Green 2003–2005Andy Grieve 2005–2007Tim Holt 2008–2009David Hand 2010–2010Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replacedpro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012Valerie Isham 2013–2014John Pullinger 2014–2016Peter Diggle 2017–2018David Spiegelhalter 2019–Deborah Ashby
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