Who is the recipient of the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize in Mathematics?

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Correct — C, Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (C.R. Rao). The Indian-American statistician — then 102 years old — was awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, often described as the field's equivalent of a Nobel Prize (statistics has no Nobel category), for his foundational 1945 paper in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, which established results — including the Cramér-Rao bound and the Rao-Blackwell theorem — that still underpin modern statistical theory nearly 80 years on.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) British statistician who won the inaugural International Prize in Statistics in 2017, for the Cox proportional hazards model — not the 2023 award.  (b) US statistician who won the award in 2019, for developing the 'bootstrap' resampling method — not the 2023 award.  (d) US biostatistician who won the award in 2021, for methods of analysing longitudinal-study data — not the 2023 award.

Concept: The International Prize in Statistics, first awarded in 2017 and given once every two years, is jointly sponsored by leading statistical societies (including the American Statistical Association, Royal Statistical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the International Statistical Institute) to honour a major, lasting contribution to statistics. It is widely called statistics' equivalent of a Nobel Prize, since the Nobel Prizes have no dedicated statistics or mathematics category.

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