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David Cox (born July 15, 1924, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], England—died January 18, 2022) was a British statistician best known for his proportional hazards model. Cox studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and from 1944 to 1946 he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. From 1946 to 1950 he worked at the Wool Industries Research Association of Science and Technology in Leeds, and in 1949 he received his doctorate in statistics from...