Nicholas Edward Day, CBE, FRS (born 24 September 1939)[1] is a retired statistician and cancer epidemiologist.
in Mathematics and a Diploma in Statistics, and the University of Aberdeen from 1962-1966, where he obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy.
[citation needed] Day worked at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon from 1969 to 1986, where he rose to become head of the Unit of Biostatistics and Field Studies.
[1] From 1997 until his retirement in 2004 he was co-director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory in Cambridge.
[1] Day was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to statistics and epidemiology underpinning cancer biology.