Michael Healy
Born	26 November 1923 Paignton, Devon
Residence	United Kingdom
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Fields	Statistician
Institutions	Rothamsted Experimental Station MRC Clinical Research Centre London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Notable awards	Guy Medal in Gold

Michael John Romer Healy (born 1923) is 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. 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. He is the author or co-author of three books and over 200 scientific papers.

[edit] References

• Tanner, James Mourilyan (1998). "Foreword [to special issue in honour of Professor Michael Healy, on the occasion of his 75th birthday]". Statistics in Medicine 17: 2655–2659. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981215)17:23<2655::AID-SIM32>3.0.CO;2-D. 
• Healy, M.J.R. (1978). "Is Statistics a Science?". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 141 (3): 385–393. doi:10.2307/2344809. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0035-9238(1978)141%3A3%3C385%3AISAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M. 

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