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John Fox is Professor Emeritus at
McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
where, prior to retirement, he was the Senator
McMaster Professor of Social Statistics. Professor Fox is the author of
numerous books (including those supported by this
website) and articles on social statistics,
statistical computing, and statistical graphics, and
in sociology and social psychology. He has also
co-authored popular packages for the R statistical
computing environment, including the car, effects,
Rcmdr, ivreg, and matlib
packages. John Fox received a BA from City
College of New York in 1968 and a PhD from the
University of Michigan in 1972, both in Sociology.
Prior to McMaster, he taught at the University of
Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, and at York University,
in Toronto. For many years, Professor Fox taught
courses, short courses, and lecture series in the
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICSPR) Summer Program in Quantitative
Methods for Social Research at the University of
Michigan. He presented short courses and workshops on
a range of topics in statistics and statistical
computing in a variety of venues in North America,
Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Professor Fox was the founding
Coordinator of the York University Statistical
Consulting Service, and was Chair of the McMaster
University Sociology Graduate Programme. He served on
the editorial boards of a number of journals,
including The American Journal of Sociology, The
Journal of Statistical Software, The R Journal,
Sociological Methods and Research, and Sociological
Methodology, and was academic editor of the Sage
Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
("QASS") monograph series. He was a frequent member of
the Advisory Committee to the ICPSR Summer Program,
and was elected to the ICPSR Council and to the R
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