Sir David Cox
Ph. Doctor
(born in 1924)
He studied mathematics at
the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. from the
University of Leeds in 1949. He was employed from 1944 to 1956 at
industries, and from 1956 to 1966 he was 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.
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."
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.
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.
Material based on
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)
