Nicholas J. Cox
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Nick Cox is interested in statistical applications within geography, including exploratory data analysis, graphics, smoothing, fitting of probability distributions, circular statistics and spatial analysis. Within geomorphology, hydrology and climatology his research has ranged from morphometry and modelling of hillslope, glacial and karstic forms, through analysis of precipitation distributions (e.g. the CSEP model developed with Professor Mike Kirkby of Leeds), to study of temperature variations in the Durham University Observatory record. Nick has developed software in various statistical and mathematical languages, including Stata, Awk and J. He is well-known in the Stata community as a prolific program writer, Chair of Stata London User Meetings (1997, 2000, 2002), former Associate Editor of the Stata Technical Bulletin, Executive Editor of the Stata Journal, and a frequent contributor to Statalist. Some of his programs have been incorporated in Stata 6.0 (1999), 7.0 (2001) and 8.0 (2003) and many others
Research Interest
Environmental statistics, Geomorphology, History and methodology of geography, Stata statistical software.
Publications
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Miles, B.W.J., Stokes, C.R., Vieli, A. & Cox, N.J. Rapid, climate-driven changes in outlet glaciers on the Pacific coast of East Antarctica. Nature. 2013;500:563-566. Cox, N.J. Careful and critical fitting of power functions and alternatives. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2012.
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Evans, I. S. & Cox, N. J. Global variations of local asymmetry in glacier altitude: separation of north-south and east-west components. Journal of Glaciology. 2013.
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Evans, I.S. & Cox, N.J. Comparability of cirque size and shape measures between regions and between researchers. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues. 2017.
