D. R. Cox

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

D. R. Cox is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, D. R. Cox has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Statistics and Probability, 7 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 6 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in D. R. Cox's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (14 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (6 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (5 papers). D. R. Cox is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (14 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (6 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (5 papers). D. R. Cox collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. D. R. Cox's co-authors include E. J. Snell, Valerie Isham, Nanny Wermuth, Ole E. Barndorff–Nielsen, Ian Diamond, Graham F. Medley, P. J. Solomon, A. C. Davison, Christiana Kartsonaki and Agnes M. Herzberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Technometrics, Biometrika and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology).

In The Last Decade

D. R. Cox

38 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

A General Definition of Residuals 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 250 500 750
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A General Definition of Residuals
    1968 924 citations D. R. Cox et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D. R. Cox United Kingdom 20 1.3k 344 327 289 289 41 2.6k
David Cox United Kingdom 18 942 0.7× 319 0.9× 383 1.2× 325 1.1× 370 1.3× 42 2.7k
Norman L. Johnson United States 19 1.4k 1.1× 559 1.6× 284 0.9× 577 2.0× 514 1.8× 55 4.2k
I. Richard Savage United States 19 1.4k 1.1× 497 1.4× 228 0.7× 474 1.6× 433 1.5× 65 3.9k
P. C. Consul Canada 19 1.0k 0.8× 193 0.6× 171 0.5× 556 1.9× 196 0.7× 61 1.7k
Richard L. Dykstra United States 22 1.5k 1.2× 406 1.2× 252 0.8× 591 2.0× 484 1.7× 76 3.0k
Ronald Pyke United States 21 1.6k 1.3× 296 0.9× 196 0.6× 581 2.0× 569 2.0× 58 3.3k
Richard A. Groeneveld United States 14 637 0.5× 248 0.7× 203 0.6× 245 0.8× 225 0.8× 45 2.9k
Gordon V. Kass South Africa 5 465 0.4× 251 0.7× 240 0.7× 513 1.8× 211 0.7× 6 3.1k
W. R. Buckland United Kingdom 21 428 0.3× 195 0.6× 277 0.8× 175 0.6× 207 0.7× 62 1.9k
George Casella United States 3 992 0.8× 428 1.2× 328 1.0× 638 2.2× 392 1.4× 4 3.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. R. Cox

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. R. Cox

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kartsonaki, Christiana & D. R. Cox. (2015). Some matched comparisons of two distributions of survival time. Biometrika. 103(1). 219–224. 3 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R., David J. Hand, & Agnes M. Herzberg. (2005). Design of investigations, statistical methods and applications. Cambridge University Press eBooks.
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Cox, D. R., David J. Hand, & Agnes M. Herzberg. (2005). Foundations of statistical inference, theoretical statistics, time series and stochastic processes. Cambridge University Press eBooks.
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Cox, D. R. & Nanny Wermuth. (1994). A note on the quadratic exponential binary distribution. Biometrika. 81(2). 403–408. 61 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1994). The theory of stochastic processes / D.R. Cox, H.D. Miller. 1994(1994). 1–99. 1 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R. & Nanny Wermuth. (1991). A Simple Approximation for Bivariate and Trivariate Normal Integrals. International Statistical Review. 59(2). 263–263. 45 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R. & Graham F. Medley. (1989). A process of events with notification delay and the forecasting of AIDS. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 325(1226). 135–145. 31 indexed citations
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Davison, A. C. & D. R. Cox. (1989). Some simple properties of sums of random variables having long-range dependence. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 424(1867). 255–262. 5 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1988). A note on design when response has an exponential family distribution. Biometrika. 75(1). 161–164. 13 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R. & Valerie Isham. (1986). The virtual waiting-time and related processes. Advances in Applied Probability. 18(2). 558–573. 7 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R. & P. J. Solomon. (1986). Analysis of Variability with Large Numbers of Small Samples. Biometrika. 73(3). 543–543. 1 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1984). Effective Degrees of Freedom and the Likelihood Ratio Test. Biometrika. 71(3). 487–487. 1 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1983). Some remarks on overdispersion. Biometrika. 70(1). 269–274. 362 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R. & Valerie Isham. (1977). A bivariate point process connected with electronic counters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 356(1685). 149–160. 60 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1966). A Simple Example of a Comparison Involving Quantal Data. Biometrika. 53(1/2). 215–215. 54 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1964). Some Applications of Exponential Ordered Scores. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 26(1). 103–110. 68 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1959). The Analysis of Exponentially Distributed Life-Times with Two Types of Failure. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 21(2). 411–421. 337 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R.. (1954). THE MEAN AND COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION OF RANGE IN SMALL SAMPLES FROM NON-NORMAL POPULATIONS. Biometrika. 41(3-4). 469–481. 13 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R., et al.. (1951). THE ANALYSIS OF YARN IRREGULARITY. Journal of the Textile Institute. Proceedings. 42(3). P107–P113. 30 indexed citations
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Cox, D. R., et al.. (1951). The Productivity of Machines Requiring Attention at Random Intervals. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 13(1). 65–82. 108 indexed citations

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