David Cox
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English statistician (1924–2022)
Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Cox
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- statistics
- Image
- Nci-vol-8182-300 david cox.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Residence
- United Kingdom
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- Commons category
- David Cox (statistician)
- date of birth
- 1924-07-15
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- David Cox
- birth name
- David Roxbee Cox
- date of death
- 2022-01-18
- honorific prefix
- Sir
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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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