David Cox (statistician)

Sir David Roxbee Cox, born in Birmingham on 15 July 1924 and died in Oxford on 18 January 2022, was a British statistician and educator. He studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge, and took his doctorate at the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. He held chairs of statistics at Birkbeck College, Imperial College London and Oxford, and was Warden of Nuffield College from 1988. His contributions include work on logistic regression, the proportional hazards model of 1972 widely used in survival analysis, and the point process now called the Cox process; with George Box he also studied the Box-Cox transformation. He edited Biometrika from 1966 to 1991 and supervised many notable statisticians. He was knighted in 1985, received the Copley Medal in 2010 and was the first recipient of the International Prize in Statistics in 2016.