David Cox (statistician)

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David Cox (1980)

Sir David Roxbee Cox ( Birmingham , July 15, 1924 – January 19, 2022 ) was a British statistician .

Life

Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College , Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. at the University of Leeds . From 1944 to 1946 he was employed by the state research and development institute, the Royal Aircraft Establishment , then until 1950 by the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds .

From 1950 to 1955 he worked as a lecturer in the statistics department of the University of Cambridge and was from 1955 to 1956 as a visiting scholar at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley . He then worked as a lecturer at Birkbeck College from 1956 , where he was appointed professor of statistics in 1961. From 1966 to 1988 he was a professor at Imperial College London and from 1969 to 1973 he was also head of the mathematics department. From 1988 to 1994 he was Head of Nuffield College , Oxford University .

Cox is best known for developing methods of event time analysis , in particular the Proportional Hazards Model ( Cox regression ) published by him in 1972 and named after him. In addition, in his publications he dealt with, among other things, the queuing theory , point processes or the theory of experimental research designs and also contributed to the development of logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression analysis . His Erdős number is 2. He also served as editor of the journal Biometrika from 1966 to 1991 .

Cox was married to Joyce Drummond from 1947 and had four children with her.

honors

Cox has received numerous honorary doctorates and awards. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Silver Guy Medal in 1961 and the Gold Guy Medal in 1973. In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1979 to 1981 Cox was President of the Bernoulli Society , from 1980 to 1982 he was President of the Royal Statistical Society. The Royal Society made him a Fellow in 1973 and Elizabeth II beat David Cox to a Knight Bachelor in 1985 . From 1989 he was a member of the Academia Europaea . In 1990 he was made a member of the American Philosophical Society . In addition, Cox became an honorary member of the British Academy in 2000 , and in 2010 the Royal Society of Canada elected him a member. Cox has been a non-resident member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1988 .

In 1990, Cox won the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation and the Gold Medal from the Cancer Research Society for the development of his 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) .

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itemizations

  1. ↑ DR Cox: Regression Models and Life-Tables . In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Methodological) , Volume 34, 1972, pp. 187-202.
  2. ↑ DR Cox: The Regression Analysis of Binary Sequences . In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological) , Volume 20, Number 2, 1958, pp. 215–224.
  3. ↑ DR Cox: Some procedures connected with the logistic qualitative response curve . In: FN David (ed.): Research Papers in Probability and Statistics (Festschrift for J. Neyman) . Wiley, London 1966, pp. 55-71.
  4. ↑ Erdős Number Calculator by MathSciNet
  5. ↑ Nancy Reid : A Conversation with Sir David Cox . In: Statistical Science, Vol. 9, Number 3, 1994, pp. 439-455.
  6. ↑ The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) New Fellows 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Cox, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cox, David Roxbee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British statistician
BIRTH DATE July 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2022