PETO, Richard
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<b>Sir Richard Peto</b> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society" href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society">FRS</a> (born May 14, 1943) is Professor of Medical <a title="Statistics" href="/wiki/Statistics">Statistics</a> and <a title="Epidemiology" href="/wiki/Epidemiology">Epidemiology</a> at <a class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University" href="/wiki/Oxford_University">the University of Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup>
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His career has included important collaborations with <a title="Richard Doll" href="/wiki/Richard_Doll">Richard Doll</a> beginning at the <a title="Medical Research Council (UK)" href="/wiki/Medical_Research_Council_(UK)">Medical Research Council</a> Statistical Research Unit in <a title="London" href="/wiki/London">London</a>.
He set up the <a title="Clinical Trial Service Unit" href="/wiki/Clinical_Trial_Service_Unit">Clinical Trial Service Unit</a> (CTSU) in <a title="Oxford" href="/wiki/Oxford">Oxford</a> in 1975 and is currently co-director.
<b>He was made a </b><a class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society" href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society"><b>Fellow of the Royal Society</b></a><b> in 1989 for his contributions to the development of </b><a title="Meta-analysis" href="/wiki/Meta-analysis"><b>meta-analysis</b></a><b>.</b> He is a leading expert on deaths related to <a title="Tobacco" href="/wiki/Tobacco">tobacco</a> use.
His brother <a title="Julian Peto" href="/wiki/Julian_Peto">Julian Peto</a>, with whom he has published work in mathematical statistics (see <a title="Logrank test" href="/wiki/Logrank_test">Logrank test</a>), is also a <b>distinguished epidemiologist.</b>.</p>