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If you have ever used logistic regression, you can probably credit Cox. He popularized the model during a time when Probit regression was more popular. For the

If you have ever used logistic regression, you can probably credit Cox. He popularized the model during a time when Probit regression was more popular. For the younger generation, a logistic regression is a neural network without a hidden layer :)

KerryJones 5y ago
Any specific suggested books by Dr. Cox as someone new but enthusiastic to the field?
- clircle 5y ago
  Cox had unrivaled breadth across the statistical books that he authored, and I'm far from an expert on his catalog, but I have read three and they are excellent. - Theory of Design of Experiments is an excellent and non-technical book on experimentation and data collection. Still important in an era of big data! - Analysis of Survival Data is the book on the Cox model. It is quite technical. I own this book for historical reasons, and I'm glad I read it, but I now recommend Therneau for serious survival statistics. - Theoretical Statistics w/ Hinkley is still a great mathematical statistics book. Excellent math-stats books are uncommon now, and Cox was a master. Cox also wrote a few books on stochastic processes that are well regarded, but I'm unfamiliar. I most recently read Celebrating Statistics: Papers in honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th birthday which is a very thoughtful collection.
- pjmorris 5y ago
  Principles of Applied Statistics by D. R. Cox and Christl A. Donnelly From Cosma Shalizi's review [0]: > D. R. Cox published his first major book, Planning of Experiments, in 1958; he has been making major contributions to the theory and practice of statistics for as long as most current statisticians have been alive. He is now in a reflective phase of his career, and this book, coauthored with the distinguished biostatistician Christl A. Donnelly, is a valuable distillation of his experience of applied work. It stands as a summary of an entire tradition of using statistics to address scientific problems. [0] http://bactra.org/reviews/cox-donnelly.html http://bactra.org/reviews/cox-donnelly.html
  - clircle 5y ago
    Sounds incredible. I will surely read this one!

KerryJones 5y ago

Any specific suggested books by Dr. Cox as someone new but enthusiastic to the field?

clircle 5y ago
Cox had unrivaled breadth across the statistical books that he authored, and I'm far from an expert on his catalog, but I have read three and they are excellent. - Theory of Design of Experiments is an excellent and non-technical book on experimentation and data collection. Still important in an era of big data! - Analysis of Survival Data is the book on the Cox model. It is quite technical. I own this book for historical reasons, and I'm glad I read it, but I now recommend Therneau for serious survival statistics. - Theoretical Statistics w/ Hinkley is still a great mathematical statistics book. Excellent math-stats books are uncommon now, and Cox was a master. Cox also wrote a few books on stochastic processes that are well regarded, but I'm unfamiliar. I most recently read Celebrating Statistics: Papers in honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th birthday which is a very thoughtful collection.
pjmorris 5y ago
Principles of Applied Statistics by D. R. Cox and Christl A. Donnelly From Cosma Shalizi's review [0]: > D. R. Cox published his first major book, Planning of Experiments, in 1958; he has been making major contributions to the theory and practice of statistics for as long as most current statisticians have been alive. He is now in a reflective phase of his career, and this book, coauthored with the distinguished biostatistician Christl A. Donnelly, is a valuable distillation of his experience of applied work. It stands as a summary of an entire tradition of using statistics to address scientific problems. [0] http://bactra.org/reviews/cox-donnelly.html http://bactra.org/reviews/cox-donnelly.html
- clircle 5y ago
  Sounds incredible. I will surely read this one!