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International Prize in Statistics

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| awarded_for = Outstanding scientific work in the field of Statistics

| year = 2016

| website = {{URL|http://www.statprize.org}}

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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.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

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

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scope=col| Year

!scope=col| Laureate(s)

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scope=row| 2017

| {{sortname|David|Cox|David Cox (statistician)}}

| British

| Imperial College London, University of Oxford

| "For Survival Analysis Model Applied in Medicine, Science and Engineering".{{cite web|title=International Prize in Statistics Awarded to Sir David Cox for Survival Analysis Model Applied in Medicine, Science, and Engineering|url=http://statprize.org/pdfs/Press-Release-International-Prize-Winner.pdf}}

scope=row| 2019

|{{sortname|Bradley|Efron|Bradley Efron}}

|American

|Caltech, Stanford University

| For the bootstrap

scope=row| 2021

|{{sortname|Nan|Laird|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{{cite web|url =https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/asa-ipi031821.php|title =International prize in statistics awarded to Nan Laird for longitudinal study methods|website =EurekAlert|publisher =American Statistical Association}}

scope=row| 2023

|{{sortname|Calyampudi Radhakrishna|Rao|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.{{cite web|url=https://statprize.org/2023-International-Prize-in-Statistics-Awarded-to-C-R-Rao.cfm|title=Eminent Statistician C.R. Rao Awarded 2023 International Prize in Statistics|publisher=International Prize in Statistics|last=Va|first=Alexandria|date=August 23, 2023|orig-date=Originally published April 1, 2023|access-date=August 26, 2023}}

scope=row| 2025

|{{sortname|Grace|Wahba|Grace Wahba}}

|American

|Stanford University, University of Maryland, College Park, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

|For her ground-breaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning.{{cite web|url=https://www.statprize.org/2025-International-Prize-in-Statistics-Awarded-to-Grace-Wahba.cfm|title=Grace Wahba Honored with International Prize for Work on Smoothing Splines|publisher=International Prize in Statistics|last=Va|first=Alexandria|date=April 14, 2025|orig-date=Originally published April 14, 2025|access-date=April 29, 2025}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://statprize.org/2017nominations.cfm|title=2017 Call for nominations|access-date=2016-10-25|archive-date=2016-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026075832/http://statprize.org/2017nominations.cfm|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite journal| date=27 October 2016| journal=Nature| volume=538 |issue=432 |doi=10.1038/538432a | title=Hungarian science spat, Kuwait's DNA law and a transparency milestone – The week in science: 21–27 October 2016| page=432| pmid=27786224| doi-access=free}}

The recipient of the prize is chosen by a selection committee comprising international experts in the field. {{Asof|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

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External links

  • {{Official|http://statprize.org}}

Category:Statistical awards

Category:International science and technology awards

Category:Awards established in 2016