01-22-2022, 06:08 AM
Great statistician.
Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS FBA FRSE (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.
Cox was born in Birmingham on 15 July 1924.[1][2] His father was a die sinker and part-owner of a jewellery shop, and they lived near the Jewellery Quarter.[3] The aeronautical engineer Harold Roxbee Cox was a distant cousin.[4] He attended Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham.[3][5] He received a Master of Arts in mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge,[1][3][6] and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. His dissertation was entitled Theory of Fibre Motion.[7]
Life and career[edit]
Cox was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds,[8] and from 1950 to 1955 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 1956 to 1966 he was Reader and then Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck College, London. In 1966, he took up the Chair position in Statistics at Imperial College London where he later became head of the mathematics department. In 1988 he became Warden of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at Oxford University. He formally retired from these positions in 1994, but continued to work at Oxford.[8][9]
Cox supervised, collaborated with, and encouraged many notable researchers prominent in statistics. He was the doctoral advisor of David Hinkley, Peter McCullagh, Basilio de Bragança Pereira, Wally Smith, Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Valerie Isham, Henry Wynn and Jane Hutton.[7] He served as President of the Bernoulli Society from 1979 to 1981[10], of the Royal Statistical Society from 1980 to 1982[11], and of the International Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997.[12] He was an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College and St John's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.[1]
In 1947, Cox married Joyce Drummond. They had four children.[13]
He died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 97.[14][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)#cite_note-14][/url]
Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS FBA FRSE (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.
Cox was born in Birmingham on 15 July 1924.[1][2] His father was a die sinker and part-owner of a jewellery shop, and they lived near the Jewellery Quarter.[3] The aeronautical engineer Harold Roxbee Cox was a distant cousin.[4] He attended Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham.[3][5] He received a Master of Arts in mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge,[1][3][6] and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. His dissertation was entitled Theory of Fibre Motion.[7]
Life and career[edit]
Cox was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds,[8] and from 1950 to 1955 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 1956 to 1966 he was Reader and then Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck College, London. In 1966, he took up the Chair position in Statistics at Imperial College London where he later became head of the mathematics department. In 1988 he became Warden of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at Oxford University. He formally retired from these positions in 1994, but continued to work at Oxford.[8][9]
Cox supervised, collaborated with, and encouraged many notable researchers prominent in statistics. He was the doctoral advisor of David Hinkley, Peter McCullagh, Basilio de Bragança Pereira, Wally Smith, Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Valerie Isham, Henry Wynn and Jane Hutton.[7] He served as President of the Bernoulli Society from 1979 to 1981[10], of the Royal Statistical Society from 1980 to 1982[11], and of the International Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997.[12] He was an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College and St John's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.[1]
In 1947, Cox married Joyce Drummond. They had four children.[13]
He died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 97.[14][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)#cite_note-14][/url]
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