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David Cox

British statistician
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In full:
Sir David Roxbee Cox
Born:
July 15, 1924, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], England (age 100)
Died:
January 18, 2022
Awards And Honors:
Copley Medal (2010)
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David Cox (born July 15, 1924, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], England—died January 18, 2022) was a British statistician best known for his proportional hazards model. Cox studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and from 1944 to 1946 he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. From 1946 to 1950 he worked at the Wool Industries Research Association of Science and Technology in Leeds, and in 1949 he received his doctorate in statistics from the University of Leeds. He was an assistant lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge from 1950 to 1955. In 1956 he became reader in statistics at ...(100 of 313 words)

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