Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{Short description|Statistical research award}}
{{Infobox award
| name = The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
| awarded_for = innovations in statistical research with impact on statistical practice and society
| presenter = {{Plainlist|
- The King Baudouin Foundation
- The Rousseeuw Foundation
}}
| country = Belgium
| reward = A medal, a certificate, and a monetary award of {{US$|link=yes}}1,000,000
| year = 2022
| website = {{URL|rousseeuwprize.org}}
| image = King handing out first RPrize.png
| image_size = 300px
| caption = King Philippe handing out the first Rousseeuw Prize
}}
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards innovations in statistical research with impact on society. This biennial prize is awarded in even years, and consists of a medal, a certificate, and a monetary reward of US$1,000,000, similar to the Nobel Prize in other disciplines.{{cite web|title= Rousseeuw Prize (about)|url=https://www.rousseeuwprize.org/about |access-date=February 9, 2023}} The home institution of the Prize is the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) in Belgium, which appoints the international jury and carries out the selection procedure. The award money comes from the Rousseeuw Foundation created by the statistician Peter Rousseeuw.
History
The first Rousseeuw Prize was awarded on October 12, 2022, at KU Leuven, presented by King Philippe of Belgium.{{cite web|title=King Philippe presents Prize of 1 million dollars at KU Leuven (extract from television news, in Dutch) |url=https://www.robtv.be/nieuws/koning-filip-geeft-prijs-in-leuven-ter-waarde-van-1-miljoen-dollar-144664 |access-date=November 3, 2022}}{{cite web|title=The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics (from the website of the Royal Palace, in Dutch and French) |url=https://www.monarchie.be/nl/agenda/the-rousseeuw-prize-for-statistics |access-date=November 3, 2022}} The awarded topic was Causal Inference with application in Medicine and Public Health, with laureates James Robins, Andrea Rotnitzky, Thomas Richardson, Miguel Hernán and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen.{{cite web|title=Statistics gets $1 million award (Science News)|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-lgbtq-nobel-laureates-statistics-prize-and-return-snail-darter |access-date=November 2, 2022}}{{cite web|title=First Rousseeuw Prize Awarded for Work on Causal Inference (AMSTAT News)|date=August 2022 |url=https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2022/08/01/first-rousseeuw-prize/ |access-date=November 2, 2022}}{{cite web|title=First Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awarded for pioneering research on causal inference|url=https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2022/first-rousseeuw-prize-for-statistics-awarded-for-pioneering-research-on-causal-inference |access-date=November 2, 2022}}{{cite web|title=Rousseeuw Prize winners announced (in Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin) |url=https://imstat.org/2022/07/18/rousseeuw-prize-winners-announced/ |access-date=November 3, 2022}}{{cite web|title=Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics (from RTBF, the French-language public Belgian Radio) |url=https://rtv.auxipress.be/ExternalVideo/Alert?id=GQjXbJHx0m4%3D&lang=fr |access-date=November 3, 2022}}
The second Rousseeuw Prize was awarded on December 3, 2024 for work on The False Discovery Rate and Methods to Control It, with laureates Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller, and Daniel Yekutieli.
Laureates
Nominations for the prize are submitted to its website together with letters of recommendation. The organizers of the prize and its ceremony are Mia Hubert and Stefan Van Aelst.
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.rousseeuwprize.org/ The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, official site]
- [https://kbs-frb.be/en The King Baudouin Foundation, official site]
Category:2022 establishments in Belgium