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David Cox

1924 - 2022

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Sir David Roxbee Cox (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Cox has received more than 29,226 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). David Cox is the 718th most popular mathematician (down from 369th in 2019), the 3,379th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,872nd in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, David Cox ranks 718 out of 1,004. Before him are Otto E. Neugebauer, Leopold Vietoris, Gustav de Vries, Ion Barbu, Lev Schnirelmann, and Evgraf Fedorov. After him are Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, William Hopkins, Eliyahu Rips, Yuri Matiyasevich, Maxim Kontsevich, and Paul du Bois-Reymond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, David Cox ranks 317. Before him are Billy Barty, Alberto Uria, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal, Priscilla Pointer, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, and Freddie Bartholomew. After him are Jane Greer, Rod Serling, Russell M. Nelson, Bobo Brazil, Pablo Birger, and Rudy Van Gelder. Among people deceased in 2022, David Cox ranks 339. Before him are Alexandra Zabelina, Severino Poletto, Stanisław Kowalski, Martin Bangemann, Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, and Jan Nowicki. After him are Joaquim Carvalho, Carmela Corren, Ela Bhatt, Víctor Benítez, Jô Soares, and Bob Falkenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Cox ranks 3,379 out of 8,785. Before him are Gillian Rubinstein (1942), David Octavius Hill (1802), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Henry Bishop (1786), Freddie Bartholomew (1924), and Patrick Malahide (1945). After him are John Shakespeare (1530), Susan George (1950), Edward Thomas (1878), Stanley Baker (1928), Michael Mann (1942), and Algernon Sidney (1623).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, David Cox ranks 74. Before him are John Cairncross (1913), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Henry Dudeney (1857), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Lady Byron (1792), and James Ivory (1765). After him are William Hopkins (1793), Charles Hutton (1737), Douglas Hartree (1897), Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), and Charles Howard Hinton (1853).

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