Background
COX, David Roxbee was born on July 15, 1924 in Birmingham. Son of Sam R. Cox and Lilian (nee Braines) Cox.
COX, David Roxbee was born on July 15, 1924 in Birmingham. Son of Sam R. Cox and Lilian (nee Braines) Cox.
Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949
He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association 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. In 1966, he took up the Chair position in Statistics at Imperial College London where he later became head of the mathematics department. In 1988 he became Warden of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at Oxford University. He formally retired from these positions in 1994.
He has served as President of the Bernoulli Society, of the Royal Statistical Society, and of the International Statistical Institute. He is now an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.
Several books on statistics, articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Biometrika etc.
Married Joyce Drummond in 1947.