David Cox (statistician)

Sir David Cox FRS FBA FRSE FRSC
Cox in 1980
Born	(1924-07-15)15 July 1924 Birmingham, England
Died	18 January 2022(2022-01-18) (aged 97)
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge (MA) University of Leeds (PhD)
Known for	Cox proportional hazards model Cox process Box-Cox transform Matrix-exponential distribution Method of supplementary variables Stochastic processes Design of experiments Analysis of binary data
Spouse	Joyce Drummond ​ (m. 1947)​
Children	4
Awards	Knight Bachelor Fellow of the Royal Society Guy Medal (Silver, 1961) (Gold, 1973) George Box Medal (2005) Copley Medal (2010) International Prize in Statistics (2016) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	Royal Aircraft Establishment Wool Industries Research Association University of Cambridge Birkbeck College, London Imperial College London Nuffield College, Oxford
Thesis	Theory of Fibre Motion  (1949)
Doctoral advisor	Henry Daniels Bernard Lewis Welch
Doctoral students	David Hinkley Peter McCullagh Basilio de Bragança Pereira Walter L. Smith Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro Adelchi Azzalini Valerie Isham Henry Wynn Claudio Di Veroli Jane Hutton
Other notable students	Nancy Reid (postdoc)

Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS FBA FRSE FRSC (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.