David Cox (statistician)

Sir David Roxbee Cox ( born July 15, 1924 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is a statistician.

Life

Cox studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1949 at the University of Leeds. From 1944 to 1946 he was employed at the British Establishment carriers Royal Aircraft, then to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds.

From 1950 to 1956 he worked at the Statistical Department of the University of Cambridge. Until 1966 he was a lecturer and later professor of statistics at Birkbeck. From 1966 to 1988 he was a professor at Imperial College London. In 1988 he was appointed as a member of the Statistical Department at the Nuffield College, Oxford University.

His Erdős number is two.

Honors

Cox has received numerous honorary degrees and awards. From the Royal Statistical Society in 1961, he was awarded the silver and 1973 gold medal Guy. From 1980 to 1982 Cox was President of the Royal Statistical Society. The Royal Society named him a Fellow in 1973, and Elizabeth II named David Cox in 1985 knighted. In addition, Cox became an honorary member of the British Academy in 2000. Cox is associated with the National Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he won the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation and the Gold Medal of the Cancer Research Society for the development of the eponymous Cox regression, which deals with the modeling of survival times. In 1992 he received the Max Planck Research Prize together with Nanny Wermuth (* 1943).