Eminent Statistician C.R. Rao Awarded 2023 International Prize in Statistics

C.R. Rao, a professor whose work more than 75 years ago continues to exert a profound influence on science, has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.

In his remarkable 1945 paper published in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Calyampudi Radhakrishna (C.R.) Rao demonstrated three fundamental results that paved the way for the modern field of statistics and provided statistical tools heavily used in science today.

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C.R. Rao

Nominations for the 2025 International Prize in Statistics open in early January, 2024.