Michael John Romer Healy (born 1923) is a British

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 statistician

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 known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology

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, laboratory

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 statistics and quality control

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, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas. He was professor of medical statistics

Medical statistics

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 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1977 until his retirement. The Royal Statistical Society

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 awarded him the Guy Medal

Guy Medal

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 in Silver in 1979 and Gold in 1999, and he also acted as chairman of its medical section. He is the author or co-author of three books and over 200 scientific papers.

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). ISBN 9780702025112
• Matrices
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   for Statistics, Oxford University Press
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  , Oxford, 1986. ISBN 9780198507024
• GLIM
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  : an Introduction, Oxford University Press
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  , Oxford, 1988. ISBN 9780198522133