David Clayton | |
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| Born | 13 June 1944 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Institute of Statisticians, Voorburg King's College, Cambridge |
| Awards | Guy Medal in Silver (1990) Snedecor Prize (1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Loughborough University London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Royal Free Hospital Leicester University University of Cambridge Wellcome Trust |
David George Clayton (born 13 June 1944), is a British statistician and epidemiologist. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Principal Research Fellow in the Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, where he chairs the statistics group. Clayton is an ISI highly cited researcher placing him in the top 250 most cited scientists in the mathematics world over the last 20 years.