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I remember thinking “isn’t it odd that there were several statisticians named Cox with important work?” It didn’t even occur to me that so many fundamentals, ov
by spenczar5 5y ago
I remember thinking “isn’t it odd that there were several statisticians named Cox with important work?” It didn’t even occur to me that so many fundamentals, over literally decades from the 50s to the 00s, and even popular textbooks like his one on applied statistics, could ALL be from one mind. Amazing.
- pcthrowaway 5y agoHow can we be sure that people with last name Cox aren't just 200% more likely to provide significant contributions to the field of statistics?
- lostcolony 5y agoBecause David Cox would have written a paper about it if so.
- notafraudster 5y agoGertrude Cox is actually also a famous statistician with considerable contributions to the field, so you weren't entirely wrong, but of course David is (was) almost peerless in living memory.