Ross L. Prentice (born October 16, 1946) is a Canadian statistician known particularly for his contributions to survival analysis and statistical methods for epidemiology. He has worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1974 and is also a professor of

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at the

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. Prentice studied mathematics at the University of Waterloo from where he graduated in 1967, then obtained an MSc and PhD in statistics from the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of Waterloo before moving to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1974. Prentice proposed the case-cohort design in 1986. His most cited statistical paper, published in 1989, concerns a criterion for the valid use of

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s. He was one of the leaders of the Clinical Coordinating Center of the Women's Health Initiative from its beginning in 1993. He received the

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in 1986 and the R. A. Fisher Lectureship in 2008, for which the citation read:

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prentice, Ross Living people 1946 births Canadian statisticians University of Washington faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine University of Waterloo faculty University of Toronto alumni University of Waterloo alumni Biostatisticians American epidemiologists Cancer epidemiologists Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center people