This biennial prize is stewarded and managed by a foundation comprising representatives of the five major statistical organizations working cooperatively to develop this prestigious award:
- American Statistical Association
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- International Biometric Society
- International Statistical Institute
- Royal Statistical Society
The goal of the foundation is to present the honoree(s) with a level of monetary award that will give the statistics prize credibility with the media and public around the world.
Mirroring the successful approach employed by other prestigious scientific prizes, the IPS recognizes an individual statistician or team of statisticians (groups of individuals working on similar ideas as teams of individuals or organizations) for “a single work or body of work”.
The International Prize in Statistics will be awarded every other year at the ISI World Statistics Congress.
Current Award
The 2021 International Prize in Statistics
was given to Professor emerita Nan Laird.
The International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in recognition of her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal studies.
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The International Prize in Statistics 2021 Lecture – ISI WSC 2021 on 12 July – by Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor emerita of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Past Awards
The 2019 International Prize in Statistics
was given to Professor Bradley Efron.
The International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to Bradley Efron, professor of statistics and biomedical data science at Stanford University, in recognition of the ‘bootstrap’, a method he developed in 1977 for assessing the uncertainty of scientific results that has had extraordinary impact across many scientific fields.
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The 2017 International Prize in Statistics
was given to Sir David Cox.
Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox has been named the inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. Dr. Cox is a giant in the field of statistics, but the International Prize in Statistics Foundation is recognizing him specifically for his 1972 paper in which he developed the proportional hazards model that today bears his name.
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