25/01/2022
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Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of the most important statisticians of the past century, Sir David Cox.
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.
Sir David was internationally renowned for his groundbreaking work in statistics and applied probability, including the development of the Cox Model, that is widely used in analysis of survival data and helps researchers to more easily identify the risks of specific factors for mortality and other survival outcomes for different patients. But the model has also been applied in many other fields of science and engineering; his 1972 paper in which it was developed, is one of the most cited papers of all time.
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