English statistician and epidemiologist (born 1943)
Sir
Richard Peto
FRS
Born
(1943-05-14) 14 May 1943 (age 81)[3]
Nationality
British
Education
Taunton's School
Alma mater
University of Cambridge (BA) Imperial College London (MSc)[3]
Known for
Meta-analysis
Peto's paradox
Log-rank test
Awards
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1997)[1]
Knight Bachelor (1999)
Guy Medal (Silver, 1986)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1992)
Prince Mahidol Award (2000)
Royal Medal (2002)
Weldon Memorial Prize (2003)
Heineken Prize for Medicine (2008)[2]
Scientific career
Fields
Medical Statistics, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology of Smoking.
Institutions
University of Oxford Green Templeton College, Oxford
Sir Richard PetoFRS (born 14 May 1943)[3] is an English statistician and epidemiologist who is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, England.[4][5][6]
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^Knottnerus, J. A. (2008). "The Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2008 awarded to Sir Richard Peto". Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. 152 (41): 2216–2218. PMID 19009807.
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^Mann, C. (1990). "Richard Peto: Statistician with a Mission". Science. 249 (4968): 479. doi:10.1126/science.249.4968.479. PMID 17735279. Archived from the original on 21 November 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
^"Royal Society citation".
^"Experts Examined - Sir Richard Peto". 13 June 2005 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
Sir RichardPeto FRS (born 14 May 1943) is an English statistician and epidemiologist who is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University...
The name refers to the forest of lines produced. In September 1990, RichardPeto joked that the plot was named after a breast cancer researcher called...
Southampton, Balliol College, Oxford and Imperial College, London. His brother RichardPeto, with whom he has published work in mathematical statistics (see the...
Clinical Trial Service Unit, notably including a study undertaken with RichardPeto, in which it was estimated that tobacco, along with infections and diet...
various cooking methods. In a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and RichardPeto in 1981, diet was estimated to cause a large percentage of cancers...
smoking-related illnesses. The original study was run by Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill. RichardPeto joined the team in 1971 and would, with Doll, prepare...
first proposed by Nathan Mantel and was named the logrank test by Richard and Julian Peto. The logrank test statistic compares estimates of the hazard functions...
published every ten years and final results published in 2004 by Doll and RichardPeto. Much early research was also done by Dr. Ochsner. Reader's Digest magazine...
published every ten years and final results published in 2004 by Doll and RichardPeto. Much early research was also done by Dr. Ochsner. Reader's Digest magazine...
satellite system Sir Donald Perrott, UK Atomic Energy Authority Julian Peto Sir RichardPeto, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology since 1992 at...
around 35% of cancers in a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and RichardPeto in 1981. These cancer may be caused by carcinogens that are...
aged 15–44 years. In 1981, human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and RichardPeto indicated that smoking caused 30% of cancers in the US. Diet...
mid-1980s, with the relatively new technique of meta-analysis, statistician RichardPeto convinced the U.S. FDA and much of the medical community that the aspirin...
Besag (1983) J. C. Gittins (1984) A. Bissell (1985) W. Pridmore (1985) RichardPeto (1986) John Copas (1987) John Aitchison (1988) F. P. Kelly (1989) David...
of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin. For his contributions to biology, Richard Dawkins proclaimed Fisher as "the greatest of Darwin's successors". He...
Besag (1983) J. C. Gittins (1984) A. Bissell (1985) W. Pridmore (1985) RichardPeto (1986) John Copas (1987) John Aitchison (1988) F. P. Kelly (1989) David...
Kary B. Mullis 1992 Leland H. Hartwell, Yoshio Masui, Paul M. Nurse, RichardPeto, Bert Vogelstein, Robert A. Weinberg 1993 Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies...
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