David Roxbee Cox (born Birmingham, England, 1924) is a British statistician. See also Birmingham, USA, and other places called Birmingham. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He studied mathematics at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 1949. He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1956 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. From 1966 to 1988 he was Professor of Statistics at Imperial College London. 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. Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names Incorporates part of what was Merton Hall which no longer exists Established 1511 Sister College(s) Balliol College... The University of Cambridge (more often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Parkinson Building, University of Leeds The University of Leeds, England, is one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... This article needs cleanup. ... The façade of the main building of Birkbeck, University of London (formerly Birkbeck College). ... Imperial College London is one of the colleges of the University of London (although negotiations with regard to its withdrawal from the University are underway) and primarily focuses on science, engineering and medicine, complemented by a business school. ... Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

Sir David Cox has received numerous honorary doctorates. He has been awarded the Guy medals in Silver (1961) and Gold (1973) of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1973, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1985 and became an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. He is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he won the Kettering Prize and Gold Medal for Cancer Research for "the development of the Proportional Hazard Regression Model." The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it became the Royal Statistical Society in 1887. ... ... Elizabeth II (née Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), born 21 April 1926, is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms (and has previously been Queen of sixteen others). ... This article is about the year. ... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...

As of June 2005, Sir David Cox has written or co-authored 300 papers and books. From 1966 through 1991 he was the editor of Biometrika. He has supervised, collaborated with, and encouraged many younger researchers now prominent in statistics. He has served as President of the Bernoulli Society, of the Royal Statistical Society, and of the International Statistical Institute. He is now an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Biometrika is a scientific journal established in 1901 by Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon to promote the study of biometrics, the statistical analysis of hereditary phenomena. ... The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it became the Royal Statistical Society in 1887. ... Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

He has made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability, of which the best known is perhaps the proportional hazards model, which is widely used in the analysis of survival data.

D. R. Cox: Selected Papers and Festschrift

• Selected Statistical Papers of Sir David Cox 2 Volume Set
• Celebrating Statistics: Papers in honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th birthday

Interview

Nancy Reid A Conversation with Sir David Cox, Statistical Science, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 439-455.

External references

• Sir David Cox - homepage at web-site of University of Oxford.

The certificate of election to the Royal Society is available at The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

• Cox, David Roxbee

There two photographs at

• Portraits of Statisticians

Cox's time in the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory is recounted in

• The History of the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory

For Cox's PhD students see

• David Roxbee Cox on the Mathematics Genealogy Project page.