Peter Armitage CBE (15 June 1924 – 14 February 2024) was a British statistician who specialised in medical statistics.

Life and career

Peter Armitage was born in Huddersfield, and was educated at Huddersfield College, before going on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War. He joined the weapons procurement agency, the Ministry of Supply where he worked on statistical problems with George Barnard.

After the war he resumed his studies and then worked as a statistician for the Medical Research Council from 1947 to 1961.

References

  • Basic career information is in the entry in
  • Who's Who 2005
  • There are recollections in
  • Peter Armitage "[//dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.00064.x Purposes, methods, philosophies]", Significance Volume 1 Issue 4 Page 170 - December 2004
  • A brief biography at wiley.co.uk (publisher of the Encyclopedia of Biostatics)
  • There is a photograph at the 'Peter Armitage on the Portraits of Statisticians' page