Two snapshots from the October 27 issue of Nature, one reporting on David Cox receiving the first “Nobel in Statistics” Prize and one about the @ScientistTrump parody site, where being Bayesian sounds like a slur..!
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Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags @ScientistTrump, American elections 2016, David Cox, Donald Trump, International Prize in Statistics, Nature on November 6, 2016 by xi'anDavid Cox gets the first International Prize in Statistics
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Cox Model, David Cox, IMS, International Prize in Statistics, Nobel Prize, Nuffield College, proportional hazards model, survival analysis, University of Oxford on October 20, 2016 by xi'an
Just received an email from the IMS that Sir David Cox (Nuffield College, Oxford) has been awarded the International Prize in Statistics. As discussed earlier on the ‘Og, this prize is intended to act as the equivalent of a Nobel prize for statistics. While I still have reservations about the concept. I have none whatsoever about the nomination as David would have been my suggestion from the start. Congratulations to him for the Prize and more significantly for his massive contributions to statistics, with foundational, methodological and societal impacts! [As Peter Diggle, President of the Royal Statistical Society just pointed out, it is quite fitting that it happens on European Statistics day!]
