Michael Healy (statistician) explained

Michael Healy
Birth Date:	26 November 1923
Birth Place:	Paignton, Devon
Citizenship:	United Kingdom
Field:	Statistics
Work Institutions:	Rothamsted Experimental Station MRC Clinical Research Centre London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Alma Mater:	Trinity College, Cambridge

Michael John Romer Healy (26 November 1923  - 17 July 2016) was a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas.^[1] He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1977 until his retirement. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Silver in 1979 and Gold in 1999, and he also acted as chairman of its medical section.^[2] He was the author or co-author of three books and over 200 scientific papers.^[3]

He died on 17 July 2016 at the age of 92.^[4]

Books

• Assessment of Skeletal Maturity and Prediction of Adult Height (TW2Method) (with J. M. Tanner, R. H. Whitehouse, W. A. Marshall and H. Goldstein), Academic Press, London, 1975 (2nd edn, 1983, additionally with N. Cameron).
• Matrices for Statistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986.
• GLIM: an Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988.

References

1. James Mourilyan . Tanner . James Mourilyan Tanner. Foreword [to special issue in honour of Professor Michael Healy, on the occasion of his 75th birthday]. Statistics in Medicine. 17. 2655–2659 . 1998. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981215)17:23<2655::AID-SIM32>3.0.CO;2-D . 10094668 . 23. free.
2. Healy, M.J.R. . 1978 . Is Statistics a Science? . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) . 141 . 3 . 385–393 . 10.2307/2344809 . 2344809.
3. Bibliography: Publications of Michael Healy up to May 1998. Statistics in Medicine . 1998. 17. 23. 2793–2802. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981215)17:23<2793::AID-SIM43>3.0.CO;2-Z.
4. Michael John Romer Healy, 1923-2016. Harvey. Goldstein. Harvey Goldstein. . 2017. 180. 1. 342–344. subscription.