David R. Cox

David R. Cox was a renowned British statistician best known for developing the Cox proportional hazards model, a fundamental tool in medical research and other fields for analyzing survival data. This model helps researchers understand how different factors influence the time until an event occurs, such as death or relapse, while accounting for other variables. Cox's work has greatly advanced statistical methods in health sciences, enabling more accurate and insightful analysis of time-to-event data. His contributions continue to be widely used in clinical studies, epidemiology, and various disciplines requiring survival analysis.