Question: International Prize in Statistics was firstly awarded in which of the following year?
(a) 2010
(b) 2015
(c) 2016
(d) 2011
Ans. (c)
Related facts:
- On 20 October 2016 Noted British statistician Sir David Cox was awarded inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics.
- The International Prize in Statistics is 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.
- The award includes a monetary award of $75,000.
- He has been awarded for his 1972 paper in which he developed the proportional hazards model that today bears his name.
- The Cox Model is widely used in the analysis of survival data and enables researchers to more easily identify the risks of specific factors for mortality or other survival outcomes among groups of patients with disparate characteristics.
Reference:
http://statprize.org/pdfs/Press-Release-International-Prize-Winner.pdf