John Fox (statistician)
Anthony John Fox (born 25 April 1946) is a
He was born on 25 April 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979. In the latter job, he helped to set up the England and Wales Longitudinal Survey, which monitors the health, address changes and fertility of a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales over time for statistical purposes.
During 1980–8, he was Professor of Social Statistics at
In 1996, following the creation of the
In 2004, he became the "Change Manager" responsible for setting up the new English
John has published several books on mortality and health statistics.