Nicholas Edward Day, CBE, FRS (born 24 September 1939) is a retired

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

and cancer epidemiologist.

Education

He was educated at

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and the University of Oxford, from 1958-1962, where he gained a B.A. in Mathematics and a Diploma in Statistics, and the University of Aberdeen from 1962-1966, where he obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy.

Career

Day worked at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon from 1969 to 1986, where he rose to become head of the Unit of

Biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

and Field Studies. He was director of the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit from 1986 to 1989, and continued as honorary director until 1999. From 1997 until his retirement in 2004 he was co-director of the

Strangeways Research Laboratory Strangeways Research Laboratory is a research institution in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was founded by Thomas Strangeways in 1905 as the Cambridge Research Hospital and acquired its current name in 1928. Organised as an independent charity, i ...

in Cambridge. He was also professor of public health at the University of Cambridge from 1989 to 1999, and professor of epidemiology from 1999 until 2004. Day was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the

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for services to statistics and epidemiology underpinning cancer biology. His hobbies include sea fishing and tree growing.

Books

* 1980 (with Norman Breslow), ''Statistical Methods in Cancer Research: Volume 1—The Analysis of Case-Control Studies''. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. . * 1986 (with Matti Hakama & Anthony B. Miller) ''Screening for cancer of the uterine cervix''. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. * 1987 (with Norman Breslow), ''Statistical Methods in Cancer Research: Volume 2—The Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies''. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. . * 1988 (edited with Anthony B. Miller) ''Screening for Breast Cancer''. Huber. .

References

1939 births Living people British statisticians Cancer epidemiologists Academics of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Gresham's School {{UK-statistician-stub