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Also known as D. R. Cox, Sir David Roxbee Cox

English statistician (1924–2022)

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Gender
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Origin
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Active from
1974-07-13
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Born
( 1924-07-15 ) 15 July 1924, Birmingham , England
Died
18 January 2022 (2022-01-18) (aged 97)
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge ( MA ) University of Leeds ( PhD )
Known for
Cox proportional hazards model Cox process Box-Cox transform Matrix-exponential distribution Method of supplementary variables Stochastic processes Design of experiments Analysis of binary data
Spouse
Joyce Drummond ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ) ​
Awards
Knight Bachelor Fellow of the Royal Society Guy Medal (Silver, 1961) (Gold, 1973) George Box Medal (2005) Copley Medal (2010) International Prize in Statistics (2016) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
Fields
Statistics
Institutions
Royal Aircraft Establishment Wool Industries Research Association University of Cambridge Birkbeck College, London Imperial College London Nuffield College, Oxford
Thesis
Theory of Fibre Motion (1949)
Doctoral advisor
Henry Daniels Bernard Lewis Welch
Doctoral students
David Hinkley Peter McCullagh Basilio de Bragança Pereira Walter L. Smith Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro Adelchi Azzalini Valerie Isham Henry Wynn Claudio Di Veroli Jane Hutton
Other notable students
Nancy Reid (postdoc)

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David Cox (statistician)
date of birth
1924-07-15
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name in native language
David Cox
birth name
David Roxbee Cox
date of death
2022-01-18
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Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS FBA FRSE FRSC (15 July 1924 – 18 January 2022) was a British statistician and educator. His wide-ranging contributions to the field of statistics included introducing logistic regression, the proportional hazards model and the Cox process, a point process named after him.

He was a professor of statistics at Birkbeck College, London, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, and served as Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. The first recipient of the International Prize in Statistics, he also received the Guy, George Box and Copley medals, as well as a knighthood.

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