David Cox

English statistician (1924-2022) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 97

Sir David Roxbee Cox 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.

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2022Died18 January 20222016BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge AwardAwardInternational Prize in StatisticsAward2010Copley MedalAward1998Honorary Doctorate from University of Bordeaux-IIAward1992Max Planck Research AwardAward1990Kettering PrizeAward1988Honorary Doctorate of Hasselt UniversityAward1985Knight BachelorAward1973Fellow of the Royal SocietyAwardGuy Medal in GoldAward1962Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward1961Guy Medal in SilverAward1956Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1924Born15 July 1924

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