Doug Altman

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Doug Altman (2014)

Douglas Graham "Doug" Altman (commonly cited as Douglas G. Altman ; born July 12, 1948 in London - † June 3, 2018 in Oxford ) was a British statistician and professor of statistics in medicine at the University of Oxford . He dedicated his career to increasing transparency and improving the quality of clinical research.

life and work

Doug Altman graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Statistics in 1970 with honors. After completing his degree, he moved to the Department of Community Medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London. He then worked for 11 years for the Medical Research Council's Clinical Research Center , where he served as a statistical advisor in a variety of medical fields. In 1988 Doug Altman became head of the newly established Medical Statistics Laboratory (now Medical Statistics Group) of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) and in 1995 founding director of the Center for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) in Oxford. In 1998 he became Professor of Statistics in Medicine at Oxford University . Altman was also the chief statistical advisor to the British Medical Journal . Altman was a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences , an award for medical professionals for excellence in their science, contribution to medicine and society and the scope of their achievements , which is bestowed by the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK as well Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society .

Altman was the author of over 450 articles in statistical methodology, 11 of which were cited more than 1,000 times. Among them is a Lancet publication that has been cited over 23,000 times and ranks 29th in the Nature Web of Science Top 100 Most Cited Research Papers of All Time.

Altman was awarded the Bradford Hill Medal in 1997 by the Royal Statistical Society for his contributions to medical statistics, and in the same year he was awarded a Doctor of Science from the University of London .

Working on the Integrity of Research

Altman was considered a leading expert in health research conduct and reporting and played an important role in setting better standards. He was one of the founders of the EQUATOR Network (for E nhancing the QUA lity and T ransparency O f health R esearch), an international initiative that aims, reliability and value to improve the published literature on health research and since 1999 member the CONSORT group, which has set itself the task of offering researchers a standardized way of reporting studies. He was also one of the original authors of the IDEAL Framework for Enhancing Surgical Research.

Works (selection)

  • Douglas G. Altman: Practical Statistics for Medical Research , Chapman & Hall, Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, 1991, ISBN 978-1-58488-039-4

Web links

Commons : Doug Altman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoff Watts: Douglas Graham Altman. In: The Lancet. 392, 2018, p. 24, doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (18) 31480-6 .
  2. ↑ Doug Altman, July 12, 1948 - June 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ Bland, J. Martin, and DouglasG Altman. "Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement." The Lancet, 327.8476 (1986): 307-310.
  4. ^ Van Noorden, Richard, Brendan Maher, and Regina Nuzzo "The top 100 papers." Nature 514.7524 (2014): 550-553.
  5. ↑ EQUATOR: About Us.
  6. ↑ Homepage of the CONSORT group.
personal data
SURNAME Altman, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altman, Douglas Graham (full name); Altman, Douglas G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British statistician
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2018
Place of death Oxford