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About Michael A. Newton
- Michael Abbott Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian statistician.
- He is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2004.
- He has written many research papers about the statistical analysis of cancer biology, including linkage analysis and signal identification. Newton received his B.Sc.
- in mathematics and statistics from Dalhousie University in 1986, and his PhD in statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1991 (under the supervision of Adrian E.
- Raftery).In 2003 Newton won the Spiegelman Award (presented annually by the American Public Health Association to an outstanding public health statistician under age 40).
- He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007.
- Newton gave a Presidential Invited Address at the International Biometric Society WNAR (Western North American Region) conference in 2002 and was an IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2011.
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