Talk:David Cox (statistician)

message: Could I please be included in the list of PhD students? Perhaps as Anthony C Atkinson to save any confusion with Anthony B. Atkinson, David Cox's successor as Warden of Nuffield.
I didn't see how to edit the list directly.
Anthony Atkinson 62.21.48.74 (talk) 17:13, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are talking about the doctoral students section in the Infobox that section is for people that already have a Wikipedia article elsewhere. We can't put everyone there so we have to limit it to something reasonable and being deemed to have met our criteria for inclusion for a standalone article is what we went with. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Majora (talk) 23:24, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Currently the article states
  Cox has written or co-authored 300 papers and books. 
without a source. Firstly, its highly dubious that Cox wrote *exactly* 300 papers and books, more likely he wrote "over 300 papers and books". Also according to Google Scholar, he has 531 papers that have more than 10 citations which probably means the count of papers he has written is much over 500 (counting all those with less than 10 citations) and currently Google Scholar counts 1677 articles by him (Articles 1–1677) which is probably an over-estimate. Also, many papers there do not seem to be by this David Cox (e.g.  "Trends in Continental Defence: A Canadian Perspective" seems unlikely). Therefore I suggest to change the sentence to 
  Cox has written or co-authored over 300 papers and books. 
Best --hroest 01:31, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  number of papers / books 

message: There really should be a note on the page, somewhere, that Cox's Theorem was created by an unrelated physicist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.58.169.98 (talk) 19:25, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the Cox from Cox's Theorem 

message: So we have now added a date of death and there is no source cited. All I have is one dubious Tweet. Do we have anything more official than that? Rhombus (talk) 12:12, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi , I've reverted the death information yet again, as there are no sources covered under WP:RS that can be used as of yet. He's definitely dead. Multiple institutions and academics are tweeting about his death. There's also a blog entry here, but again it fails WP:RS. Something should come along within the next couple of days. Until then, can you please help me keep the death information off of the page when others add it without a source? Thanks! --Jkaharper (talk) 12:25, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

text: Perhaps we can resolve this by stating "He died sometime in January 2022, at the age of more than 96 and less than 98." --Zeno Cosini~enwiki (talk) 06:29, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I saw what you did there ;-) Rhombus (talk) 14:03, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for death notification 

message: My correction has been deleted because it is "unlikely!":
I have corresponded with Prof. Cox throughout all his life.
I have written evidence about this, including Imperial College Diplomas
See https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=142140
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Di_Veroli Diveroli (talk) 16:52, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Diplomas ... Diveroli (talk) 17:55, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Note that you should not be editing pages you have a conflict of interest on. Feel free to add comments on the talk pages of those pages, but you should not be making changes to those pages. --Engineerchange (talk) 20:23, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologise, not familiar with the procedure. Anyway my minor addition, just my name with its link to my Wikipedia entry (of which I am not the author) was correct. Will follow this formality from now on" 87.7.206.134 (talk) 21:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Please also note that I felt offended. One's name should not be deleted from a Wikipedia entry just because it looks "unlikely". I have been all my life a IT worker and a weekend musician, and got international-level results in both fields (and published, documented, reviewed). And I had a personal attachment to Prox. Cox, with whom I corresponded by email until less than a year before his death. Diveroli (talk) 21:30, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

text:  can definitely understand your sentiments about the curt remark about the uncertainty of the two disciplines intersecting. In my opinion, the more interesting careers are those that are less standard. Just wanted to share a friendly note from another editor that your opinions/thoughts on editing the page can be heard on the talk page, but Wikipedia policy refrain people attached directly to a subject to edit those pages themselves, otherwise every biography in this encyclopedia could have unverified detail. Be well, --Engineerchange (talk) 22:58, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your kind reply. Will be attentive going forward. Diveroli (talk) 00:34, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have been a student of Prof. David R. Cox