Peter Armitage has a Cambridge M.A. in mathematics and a London
Ph.D, in Statistics. He was a Statistician for the Medical Research
Council from 1947-61, and Professor of Medical Statistics at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1961-76. He
then moved to Oxford, first as Professor of Biomathematics, later
as Professor of Applied Statistics and head of the new Department
of Statistics, retiring in 1990.
His research has centred around the development of methods for
medical statistics, especially clinical trials. He is a Past
President of the International Biometric Society, International
Society for Clinical Biostatistics, and Royal Statistical Society,
and edited Biometrics 1980-84. He was appointed C.B.E. in 1984.
Theodore Colton earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of
North Carolina and an Sc.D. in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has held faculty positions
at Harvard Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and Boston
University School of Public Health where he was Professor and Chair
of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He was twice
the recipient of fellowship awards, from the National Science
Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, for study at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the
American College of Epidemiology, and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and he has served as president of
Biometrics (Eastern North-American Region) and the Statistics
Section of the American Public Health Association. He has served
and continues to serve on numerous advisory committees and peer
review groups for governmental agencies including the National
Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
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