David Cox (statistician)
FRSE FRSC | |
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 Cox in 1980 | |
| Born | 15 July 1924 , England |
| Died | 18 January 2022 (aged 97) |
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| Spouse |
Joyce Drummond (m. 1947) |
| Children | 4 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Theory of Fibre Motion (1949) |
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| Doctoral students | |
| Other notable students | Nancy Reid (postdoc) |
Sir David Roxbee Cox 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.
He was a professor of statistics at
knighthood
.
Early life
Cox was born in
PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. His dissertation was entitled Theory of Fibre Motion.[7]
Career
Cox was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the
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 collaborated with
Bernoulli Society from 1979 to 1981,[12] of the Royal Statistical Society from 1980 to 1982,[13] and of the International Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997.[14] 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]
Personal life
In 1947, Cox married Joyce Drummond, and they had four children.[15] He died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 97.[16][17]
Research
Cox made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability, of which the best known are:
- The proportional hazards model, which is widely used in the analysis of survival data, was developed by him in 1972.[20][21] An example of the use of the proportional hazards model is in survival analysis in medical research. The model can be used in clinical trials to investigate time-based information about cohorts of patients, such as their response to exposure to certain chemical substances.[22]
- The Cox process was named after him.[23]
Awards
Cox received numerous awards and honours for his work. He was awarded the
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category jointly with Bradley Efron, for the development of "pioneering and hugely influential" statistical methods that have proved indispensable for obtaining reliable results in a vast spectrum of disciplines from medicine to astrophysics, genomics or particle physics.[9]
Publications
Cox wrote or co-authored over 300 papers and books.[33] From 1966 to 1991 he was the editor of Biometrika.[29] His books are as follows:
- Planning of experiments (1958)
- Queues (Methuen, 1961). With Walter L. Smith
- Renewal Theory (Methuen, 1962).
- The theory of stochastic processes (1965). With Hilton David Miller
- Analysis of binary data (1969). With Joyce Snell
- Theoretical statistics (1974). With D. V. Hinkley
- Problems and Solutions in Theoretical Statistics (1978). With D. V. Hinkley
- Point Processes (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1980). With Valerie Isham
- Applied statistics, principles and examples (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1981). With Joyce Snell
- Analysis of survival data (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1984). With David Oakes
- Asymptotic techniques for use in statistics. (1989) With Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen
- Inference and asymptotics (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1994). With Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen
- Multivariate dependencies: models, analysis and interpretation (Chapman & Hall, 1995). With Nanny Wermuth
- The theory of design of experiments. (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000). With Nancy M. Reid
- Complex stochastic systems (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000). With Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and Claudia Klüppelberg
- Components of variance (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2003). With P. J. Solomon
- Principles of Statistical Inference (Cambridge University Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0-521-68567-2
- Selected Statistical Papers of Sir David Cox 2 Volume Set
- Principles of Applied Statistics (CUP). With Christl A. Donnelly
He was named editor of the following books:
- D. R. Cox; D. M. Titterington, eds. (1991). Complex Stochastic Systems. ISBN 978-0-85403-453-6.
- D. R. Cox, ed. (1992). The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Factorial and ANOVA. Vol. VII. ISBN 978-0-412-06321-3.
- D. R. Cox; ISBN 978-0-412-72930-0.
- D. M. Titterington; D. R. Cox, eds. (2001). Biometrika: One Hundred Years. ISBN 978-0-19-850993-6.
The following book was published in his honour:
- Celebrating Statistics: Papers in honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th birthday ISBN 978-0-19-856654-0
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "'Genius' statistician and Honorary Fellow dies aged 97 | StJohns". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "David Cox". ukdataservice.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016.
- S2CID 113908453.
- Handsworth Grammar School. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ a b c "Sir David Cox". American Academy of Political and Social Science. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ a b David Cox at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Gregersen, Erik (13 February 2015). "Sir David Cox, British statistician". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards(Press release). 24 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ "Professor Sir David Cox", The Times, no. 73693, p. 79, 29 January 2022
- MR 0192611.
- ^ "History". www.bernoulli-society.org. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ "Sir David Cox, 1924-2022". RSS. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ "History of the International Statistical Institute | ISI". www.isi-web.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- JSTOR 2246357.
- ^ "Sir David Cox, 1924-2022". Nuffield College Oxford University. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ "'Genius' statistician and Honorary Fellow dies aged 97 | StJohns".
- JSTOR 2983890.
- .
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- MR 0341758.
- PMID 15273082.
- ISBN 978-0-470-06033-9.
- ^ a b "Penn State Holds 2015 Rao Prize Conference to Honor Winners". AMSTATNEWS. American Statistical Association. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "David Roxbee Cox". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "No. 50221". The London Gazette. 6 August 1985. p. 10815.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "Sir David Cox Hon FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ The Royal Society. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ "NEW FELLOWS 2010" (PDF). Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ Talley, Jill (19 October 2016). "International Prize in Statistics Awarded to Sir David Cox for Survival Analysis Model Applied in Medicine, Science, and Engineering" (PDF) (Press release). American Statistical Association. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ^ "Sir David Cox FRS, HonFBA, HonFRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- Nuffield College. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- "'I would like to think of myself as a scientist, who happens largely to specialise in the use of statistics'– An interview with Sir David Cox". Statistics Views. John Wiley & Sons. 24 January 2014. Archived from the originalon 12 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Cox (statistician).
- Sir David Cox – homepage at web-site of University of Oxford.
- The certificate of election to the Royal Society is available at Cox, David Roxbee
- There are two photographs at Portraits of Statisticians
- Cox's time in the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory is recounted in The History of the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- David Roxbee Cox at the Mathematics Genealogy Project