What is David Cox (statistician)?
{{Infobox scientist |honorific_prefix = [[Sir]] |name = David Cox |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FBA|FRSE}} |image = Nci-vol-8182-300 david cox.jpg |caption = Cox in 1980 |birth_date = {{birth date|1924|7|15|df=yes}} |birth_place = [[Birmingham]], England |death_date = {{death date and age|2022|1|18|1924|7|15|df=yes}} |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = United Kingdom |nationality = |ethnicity = |spouse = {{marriage|Joyce Drummond|1947}} |children = 4 |fields = Statistics |workplaces = [[Royal Aircraft Establishment]]<br />[[Wool Industries Research Association]]<br />[[University of Cambridge]]<br />[[Birkbeck, University of London|Birkbeck College, London]]<br />[[Imperial College, London]]<br />[[Nuffield College, Oxford]] |alma_mater = [[St John's College, Cambridge]]<br />[[University of Leeds]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Henry Daniels]]<br>[[Bernard Lewis Welch]] |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = [[David Hinkley]]<br />[[Peter McCullagh]]<br />[[Basilio de Bragança Pereira]]<br />[[Wally Smith (mathematician)|Walter L. Smith]]<br />[[Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro]]<br />[[Valerie Isham]] <br /> [[Henry Wynn]]<br />[[Jane Hutton]] |notable_students = |known_for = [[Cox proportional hazards model]]<br />[[Cox process]]<br />[[Power transform|Box-Cox transform]]<br />[[Matrix-exponential distribution]]<br />[[Method of supplementary variables]]<BR />[[Stochastic process]]es<br />[[Design of experiments]]<br />Analysis of binary data |influences = |influenced = |awards = [[Knight Bachelor]]<br />[[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<br />[[Guy Medal]] {{small|(Silver, 1961) (Gold, 1973)}}<br />[[George Box Medal]] <small>(2005)</small><br />[[Copley medal]] <small>(2010)</small><br/>[[International Prize in Statistics]] <small>(2016)</small> <br/> [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] <small>(2016)</small> |rel