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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.
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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.
David Cox, British statistician best known for his proportional hazards model, in which he proposed a hazard function that was separated into time-dependent and time-independent parts. The model is used extensively in medical research. Learn more about Cox’s life and career.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 1 Biographical Outline
- 2 Stochastic Processes
- 3 Design of Investigations
- 4 Statistical Methods and Applications
- 5 Statistical Inference
- 6 Coda
- 7 Further Reading
David Roxbee Cox was born in Birmingham on 15 July 1924, and was educated at Handsworth Grammar School, before going on to St John's College Cambridge in 1942, where he read mathematics. After 2 years exemption from military service, he went to the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough in the Department of Structural and Mechanical Engi...
Following his move to Cambridge in 1950, much of David's early research was in the field of stochastic processes, an interest prompted by Henry Daniels and encouraged by attending lectures from Maurice Bartlett in Manchester while at WIRA, as well as by his applied experience. Looking back, he said ‘In those days, while it was a difficult subject t...
Planning of Experiments (), still in print, has been a remarkably influential book. As described in Reid (1994), David's first thought was to write up his rather theoretical notes from a course given in Cambridge, but he decided instead to address the book to scientists, focussing on the key ideas, and keeping the mathematics to a bare minimum. The...
David is best known for the 1972 RSS discussion paper that introduced the ‘Cox model’ (though he himself never used this term), but his other contributions to statistical methods were so extensive that it would be quicker to list the areas that he left untouched. Although the 1972 paper is widely and correctly seen as a startling breakthrough, in r...
David's 1958 paper () was his first to concentrate on the foundations and theory of inference. Exceptionally clearly written, and bursting with new ideas, it continues to be regularly cited. In the abstract he writes modestly ‘It consists of some general comments, few of them new, about statistical inference. … Parts of the paper are controversial;...
It is difficult to convey, even in a long-ish article, the remarkable breadth and depth of David's life in science. We urge readers to peruse the list of his publications at Nuffield College, to take a few minutes to read any haphazardly chosen paper, and to marvel at what Violet Cane described in her discussion of as ‘the elegant ease’ of his expo...
David's full list of publications is available by searching online. Two volumes of invited review papers were prepared in his honour: Hinkley et al. (1991) was a tribute to mark his 65th birthday, and Davison et al. (2005) collect papers presented at his 80th birthday conference. Hand and Herzberg (2005a, 2005b) is a two-volume set of David's selec...
Mar 29, 2022 · Sir David Cox died on 18 January 2022 at the age of 97. News of his passing was met with an outpouring of tributes. To the Royal Statistical Society, he was “one of the most important statisticians of the past century”. At Nuffield College, Oxford, he was hailed as “a pioneering statistician”.
Jan 26, 2022 · Professor Sir David Cox FRS, Hon FBA, 1924-2022, was arguably the most eminent statistician of the twentieth century. After spells at the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Wool Research Institute he took an assistant lecturer position in Cambridge on a five-year contract.
Apr 1, 2022 · Sir David Roxbee Cox died suddenly at his home in Oxford on January 18, 2022, leaving Joyce, his patient and supportive wife of almost 75 years, and their four children. David was so engaged and energetic in research that his death came as a shock.
Jan 20, 2022 · A pioneering statistician, David’s academic legacy includes his work on binary logistic regression, the proportional hazards model which he developed in 1972, and the Cox process. David was Warden of Nuffield College between 1988 and 1994, and an active member of the College up until his death.
