Doug Altman | |
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Born | 12 July 1948 |
Residence | United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Fields | Statistician |
Institutions | Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Cancer Research UK, University of Oxford |
Alma mater | University of Bath |
Known for | Medical statistics |
Notable awards | Royal Statistical Society's Bradford Hill Medal[1] (1997) |
Professor Douglas G. Altman (born 1948) is a British statistician. He is the Founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group.
His varied research interests include the use and abuse of statistics in medical research, studies of prognosis, regression modelling, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, randomised trials, reporting guidelines and studies of medical measurement.
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Doug Altman graduated in statistics from the University of Bath. His first job was in the Department of Community Medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He then spent 11 years working for the Medical Research Council's Clinical Research Centre where he worked almost entirely as a statistical consultant in a wide variety of medical areas.
In 1988 Doug Altman became head of the newly formed Medical Statistics Laboratory (now Medical Statistics Group) at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK), and in 1995 also became founding director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) in Oxford. In 1998 he was made Professor of Statistics in Medicine by the University of Oxford.
He is the statistical advisor to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), where he is a member of the editorial "hanging committee". He is a co-convenor of the statistical Methods Group of the Cochrane Collaboration.
He is an active member of the CONSORT Group since 1999, a group dedicated to offering a standardised way for researchers to report trials. The intent is to make the experimental process more clear, flawed or not, so that users of the data can more appropriately evaluate its validity for their purposes.
Doug Altman is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and editor in chief of Trials.
List of the over 396 articles by Doug Altman available through PubMed.