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International Prize in Statistics
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- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (102), a prominent Indian-American mathematician and statistician, will receive the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.
- It is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the field.
- This is awarded for his monumental work 75 years ago that revolutionised statistical thinking.
- In 1945, he published a paper in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society.
- He demonstrated three fundamental results that paved the way for the modern field of statistics and provided statistical tools heavily used in science today.
- He served as the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute.
- He was awarded the title of Padma Bhushan by the Indian Government (1968) and Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
- The first International Prize in Statistics was awarded in 2017 to David R Cox.
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