International Prize in Statistics
Awarded forOutstanding scientific work in the field of Statistics
First awarded2016
Websitewww.statprize.org

The International Prize in Statistics is awarded every two years to an individual or team "for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare". The International Prize in Statistics, along with the COPSS Presidents' Award, are the two highest honours in the field of Statistics.

The prize is modelled after the Nobel prizes, Abel Prize, Fields Medal and Turing Award and comes with a monetary award of $80,000. The award ceremony takes place during the World Statistics Congress.

Laureates

Year Laureate(s) Citizenship(s) Institution(s) Citation
2017 David Cox British Imperial College London, University of Oxford "For Survival Analysis Model Applied in Medicine, Science and Engineering".[1]
2019 Bradley Efron American Caltech, Stanford University For the bootstrap
2021 Nan Laird American Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health For her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal studies[2]
2023 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Indian–American Indian Statistical Institute, Cambridge University, Pennsylvania State University, University at Buffalo For his work more than 75 years ago which continues to exert a profound influence on science, including the Cramér–Rao lower bound, the Rao–Blackwell theorem, and a result that provided insights that pioneered the interdisciplinary field of information geometry.[3]

Rules

The prize recognizes a single work or body of work, representing a powerful and original idea that had an impact in other disciplines or a practical effect on the world. The recipient must be alive when the prize is awarded.[4]

Organization

The prize is awarded by the International Prize in Statistics Foundation, which comprises representatives of the following major learned societies:

In addition to recognizing the contributions of a statistician, the Foundation also aims at educating the public about statistical innovations and their impact on the world and gaining wider recognition for the field.[5]

The recipient of the prize is chosen by a selection committee comprising international experts in the field. As of 2016, the committee members were Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University), Sally Morton (Virginia Tech), Stephen Senn (Luxembourg Institute of Health), Bernard Silverman (University of Oxford), Stephen Stigler (University of Chicago), Susan Wilson (Australian National University) and Bin Yu (University of California, Berkeley). As of May 2022, the members of the selection committee are Yoav Benjamini, Francisco Cribari-Neto, Vijay Nair, Sonia Petrone, Nancy Reid, Sylvia Richardson, and Jane-Ling Wang.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "International Prize in Statistics Awarded to Sir David Cox for Survival Analysis Model Applied in Medicine, Science, and Engineering" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "International prize in statistics awarded to Nan Laird for longitudinal study methods". EurekAlert. American Statistical Association.
  3. ↑ Va, Alexandria (August 23, 2023) [Originally published April 1, 2023]. "Eminent Statistician C.R. Rao Awarded 2023 International Prize in Statistics". International Prize in Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  4. ↑ "2017 Call for nominations". Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  5. ↑ "Hungarian science spat, Kuwait's DNA law and a transparency milestone – The week in science: 21–27 October 2016". Nature. 538 (432): 432. 27 October 2016. doi:10.1038/538432a. PMID 27786224.
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