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David Cox (statistician)
Overview
Birmingham
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, England) is a prominent British
British people
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statistician
Statistician
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Cox studied mathematics
Mathematics
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at St. John's College
St John's College, Cambridge
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, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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and obtained his PhD
Ph.D.
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from the University of Leeds
University of Leeds
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in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels
Henry Daniels
Henry Ellis Daniels FRS was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society , and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980...
and Bernard Welch.
He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
Royal Aircraft Establishment
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, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association
Wool Industries Research Association
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in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1956 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 1956 to 1966 he was Reader and then Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck College, London
Birkbeck, University of London
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