Statistician David Cox: English statistician
Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS FBA FRSE (15 July 1924 – 18 January 2022) was a British statistician.
David Cox FRS FBA FRSE | |
|---|---|
 Cox in 1980 | |
| Born | 15 July 1924 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 18 January 2022 (aged 97) |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge University of Leeds |
| 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 (m. 1947) |
| Children | 4 |
| 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Royal Aircraft Establishment Wool Industries Research Association University of Cambridge Birkbeck College, London Imperial College, London Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Daniels Bernard Lewis Welch |
| Doctoral students | David Hinkley Peter McCullagh Basilio de Bragança Pereira Walter L. Smith Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro Valerie Isham Henry Wynn Jane Hutton |
Her best known works were creating or expanding, Logistic Regression, the proportional hazards model, and the Cox process, which was named after him.
Cox died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 97.
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