Old Boy Honoured

HGS Old Boy Sir David Cox is the first ever recipient of the International Prize in Statistics

Sir David Cox, former President of the Royal Statistics Society and Honorary Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford is the first recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. Like the acclaimed Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Turing Award and Nobel Prizes, the International Prize in Statistics is considered the highest honour in its field. Recipients are chosen by a selection committee comprised of world-renowned academicians and researchers and the award, worth $75k, will be officially presented at the World Statistics Congress.

This inaugural prize recognises Sir David Cox’s 1972 paper in which he developed the proportional hazards model that today bears his name. The Cox Model has been applied in many fields of science and engineering, from disease risk assessment, treatment evaluation and showing the mortality effects of particulate air pollution to product liability.