Michael Abbott Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian statistician.
[1] He has written many research papers about the statistical analysis of cancer biology, including linkage analysis and signal identification.
[2] In 2003 Newton won the Spiegelman Award (presented annually by the American Public Health Association to an outstanding public health statistician under age 40).
[3] He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007.
[4] 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.