![]() His academic career also took him to Birkbeck College and Imperial College, London. After working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment and Wool Industries Research Association, he took up an academic position at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, later becoming a Visiting Professor at the University of Carolina. That same year he jointly won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category with Professor Bradley Efron of Stanford University, ‘for the development of “pioneering and hugely influential” statistical methods that have proved indispensable for obtaining reliable results in a vast spectrum of disciplines from medicine to astrophysics, genomics or particle physics’.īorn in Birmingham in July 1924, Sir David studied Mathematics at St John’s in the 1940s and went on to obtain his PhD from the University of Leeds. In 2010 Sir David was awarded the prestigious Copley Medal of the Royal Society for his seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistics, and in 2017 he was the very first recipient of the International Prize in Statistics for his ‘life-changing breakthroughs with far reaching societal impacts’. It was a privilege to count such an inspiring scholar and alumnus of St John’s as an Honorary Fellow of the College.” ![]() Sir David will be remembered for his hugely significant contribution towards statistical research and for his unfailing support of future generations of mathematicians. Heather Hancock, Master of St John’s College, said: “We were saddened to learn of the death of internationally renowned statistician Sir David Cox. He was awarded the Royal Statistical Society’s highest honour – the Gold Guy Medal – in 1973, and was knighted by the Queen in 1985. Sir David’s research earned him many awards, medals and honorary doctorates. He remained affiliated with the Department of Statistics at Oxford after his official retirement. He was elected as an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College in 1989 and was also an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was Warden from 1988-1994. Sir David was an internationally renowned statistician who made outstanding contributions to research in the fields of statistics and applied probability, including the development of the Cox Model, which is widely used in medicine when analysing patients’ chances of survival. ![]() Tributes have been paid to Sir David Roxbee Cox MA FRS FBA (Hon) FRSE, a pioneering British statistician, Honorary Fellow and alumnus of St John’s College, who has died at the age of 97. ![]()
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