What is Doug Altman?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Doug Altman |image = Doug altman.jpeg |image_size = |caption = Professor Douglas Altman |birth_date = {{birth date|1948|7|12|df=no}} |birth_place = [[London]], UK |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|06|03|1948|07|12}} |death_place = [[Oxford]], UK |citizenship = |nationality = United Kingdom |ethnicity = |field = [[Statistician]] |work_institutions = [[Centre for Statistics in Medicine]], [[Cancer Research UK]], [[University of Oxford]] |alma_mater = [[University of Bath]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[Medical statistics]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |prizes = [[Royal Statistical Society|Royal Statistical Society's]] [[Austin Bradford Hill|Bradford Hill]] Medal (1997); [[British Medical Journal|BMJ]] Lifetime Achievement Award (2015) |religion = |footnotes = }} '''Douglas Altman''' [[FMedSci]] (12 July 1948 – 3 June 2018) was an English [[statistician]]. He was best known for his work on improving the reliability and reporting of medical research and for highly cited papers on statistical methodology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Citation for 2015 British Medical Journal Awards 2015 |url=http://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/medical-oscars-showcase-the-best-of-british-healthcare/ |access-date=2018-06-05 |archive-date=2015-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817002056/http://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/medical-oscars-showcase-the-best-of-british-healthcare/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Altman was professor of statistics in medicine at the [[University of Oxford]], founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and [[Cancer Research UK]] Medical Statistics Group,<ref>[http://www.octru.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers/doug-altman Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit biography]</ref> and co-founder of the international [[EQUATOR Network|Equator Network]] for health research reliabi