Yoav Benjamini was awarded for his Benjamini-Hochberg 1995 paper “Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing” (J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 57, 1995, no. 1, 289–300).

The paper by Benjamini and Hochberg, cited more than 50,000 times, introduced the false discovery rate or FDR that is widely used in diverse sciences to make simultaneous inference about a large number of hypotheses. FDR liberalizes the threshold for identifying hypotheses worth further investigation while at the same time controlling the rate of false discoveries. It has become an essential part of the analysis pipeline of complex data around the world. In addition to its wide applicability, the FDR paper includes elegant mathematical statistics.

See also:

• The False Discovery Rate | Stats + Stories Episode 108 with Yoav Benjamini
• ISI President’s Tribute to 2019 Pearson Prize Winner Yoav Benjamini
• Thank you video message from Yoav Benjamini

The prize was presented at the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress in Kuala Lumpur.

For ISI’s regional initiatives in South East Asia, and for the inaugural ISI Regional Statistics Conference in 2014.

For ISI’s regional initiatives in South East Asia, and for the inaugural ISI Regional Statistics Conference in 2014.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stat.

Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Statistical Review.

Chair of the Local Programme Committee for the 60th ISI WSC.

Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for the 60th ISI WSC.

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service to ISI and the international statistical community, in Statistical Capacity Building developments and innovations, including: ISI leadership workshops and meetings across Africa, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, UN World Data Forum in Cape Town, January 2017, and ISI side events to UNSC.

For outstanding and dedicated service to ISI2017, 61st WSC.

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as Local Programme Committee Chair ISI2017, 61st WSC