A great contributor to the profession of Statistics! So sad to hear of his
untimely departure. Doug’s work shall forever be remembered. Thank you Doug
for your impact to Statisical Methodology. Farewell professor!
Edmore Chamapiwa
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 at 19:31, Steve Nyangoma <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I was honoured to have written the first proper paper on sample size
> calculations for proteomic profilling studies with Doug:
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22499705
>
> and our findings were implemented in R and is freely available here:
>
> https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/clippda.html
>
> Fare thee well, Doug.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Martin Bland <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I am very sad to tell you that my dear friend and collaborator Doug
> Altman
> > passed away today. We were working together to the end and exchanged
> > emails only on Friday.
> >
> > Doug and I have been friends since 1972 and have published together 100
> > times, with more in draft. They will be finished. Doug is one of the
> most
> > influential medical statisticians of the past 40 years and did so much to
> > improve the methodological quality of medical research, thus benefiting
> > thousands of lives.
> >
> > Doug had been treated for bowel cancer. Recently, he told me that there
> > were metastases, but I thought we still had time. I am bereft.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > --
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