Interview with Professor Peter Armitage (2007)

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A special highlight for the Annual Armitage Lecture Series - an interview with Professor Peter Armitage, led by Professor David Spiegelhalter and Professor Vern Farewell, on 15th November 2007. The Armitage Lecture is named to honour the immense contributions of Professor Peter Armitage CBE who was at the Unit from 1947 to 1961, and whose work is recognised throughout the world as achieving a successful balance between methodological rigour and applied commonsense, to which all statisticians aspire. A series of lectures bearing his name could have been established almost anywhere. However, it is particularly apt that it has been established by the BSU. It was in Cambridge in the 1940s that Peter started his academic career when he read for the Mathematics Tripos. He took his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and in 1947 he started work at the MRC Statistical Research Unit, the original name for BSU.