International Prize in Statistics to Sir David Cox

Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox has been named the inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. Like the acclaimed Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Turing Award and Nobel Prize, the International Prize in Statistics is considered the highest honor in its field. It will be bestowed every other year to an individual or team for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare. 

This inaugural prize recognises Sir David’s seminal 1972 paper in which he developed the proportional hazards model that today bears his name. The Cox Model has been applied in many fields of science and engineering, from disease risk assessment and treatment evaluation to product liability, school dropout, re-incarceration and AIDS surveillance systems.

His mark on research is so great that his 1972 paper is one of the three most-cited papers in statistics and ranked 16th in Nature’s list of the top 100 most-cited papers of all time for all fields.

Read further details at:

http://www.statprize.org/pdfs/Press-Release-International-Prize-Winner.pdf

https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3052-sir-david-cox-honoured-with-first-international-prize-in-statistics

Competitions to celebrate 175th Anniversary of ASA

American Statistical Association is celebrating 175th anniversary. You may celebrate with them by doing any of the following:

• Entering ASA's Got Talent, the ASA's unique talent competition
• Looking for clues in Amstat News and playing ASA's Trivia Challenge
• Sending in your design for the ASA's official 175th anniversary T-shirt

Submit your entries before 30th April 2014. More details can be found at: 

http://www.amstat.org/asa175/celebratewithus.cfm

2013 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards

Mr. Abhik Ghosh from India has been declared the winner of Jan Tinbergen Award. For a complete list of winners, have a look at:

http://www.isi-web.org/wsc/733-wsctba2013

The Awards will be presented to the winners at the ISI/Associations’ Awards Ceremony on 29th August, in Hong Kong.

ISI 2013 Karl Pearson Prize

The inaugural Karl Pearson Prize has been awarded to Peter McCullagh & John Nelder for their monograph Generalized Linear Models

http://www.isi-web.org/WSC/726-2013kpp

Royal Statistical Society’s 2013 honours announced

The RSS has announced its honours (which includes Guy medals) for 2013, having been decided by Council in January. The awards will be presented to the recipients at a ceremony held during the Society’s annual conference in Newcastle on 3 September 2013:

http://www.rssenews.org.uk/2013/02/royal-statistical-societys-2013-honours-announced/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-statistical-societys-2013-honours-announced

Jagannath Wani appointed to Order of Canada

Professor Jagannath Wani is appointed to Order of Canada (the second highest honour for merit in Canada) for his volunteer work in Calgary and India and academic achievements. He is Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences at University of Calgary.. The Maharashtra Seva Samiti Organization he founded in 1984 raised close to $7 million in 27 years to help India’s less fortunate, including matching funds from the Canadian International Development Agency and the Alberta government. 

PS: He got his master's degree from Department of Statistics, University of Pune in 1960.

http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/12/30/u-of-c-professor-emeritus-jagannath-wani-appointed-to-order-of-canada-for-volunteer-work-mathematics