<div dir="auto"><div>Prezados Colegas,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Divulgo abaixo o resultado do Rousseeuw Prize no valor de um milhão de dólares. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Um abraço, </div><div dir="auto">Paulo.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">----‐--------------------------------------<br>Paulo Canas Rodrigues<br><a href="http://www.paulocanas.org">www.paulocanas.org</a><br>----‐--------------------------------------</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Stefan Van Aelst</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:stefan.vanaelst@kuleuven.be">stefan.vanaelst@kuleuven.be</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 17:51<br>Subject: 2022 Rousseeuw Prize goes to Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health<br>To: <a href="mailto:paulocanas@gmail.com">paulocanas@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:paulocanas@gmail.com">paulocanas@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: Mia Hubert <<a href="mailto:mia.hubert@kuleuven.be">mia.hubert@kuleuven.be</a>>, Peter Rousseeuw <<a href="mailto:peter@rousseeuw.net">peter@rousseeuw.net</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would greatly appreciate if you could send this announcement to the members of the Brazilian Statistical Society and other Latin American statistical associations or mailing lists.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are happy to let you know that the King Baudouin Foundation has announced the winners of the first Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics. This biennial prize, worth 1 million USD, aims to reward excellence in statistical research which has
a significant impact. The selected topic is Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health. Half the prize amount will go to James Robins of Harvard University and half will be shared by Miguel Hernán (Harvard University), Thomas Richardson (University of
Washington), Andrea Rotnitzky (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina) and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania). An image with their photos is attached.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The international jury appointed by the King Baudouin Foundation selected the winners from the nominations received after a widely advertised call earlier this year. The jury consisted of its chair, David Hand (Imperial College), Lutgarde
Buydens (Radboud University Nijmegen), Probal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute), Dianne Cook (Monash University), Roger Koenker (University of Illinois), Yanyuan Ma (Penn State), David Scott (Rice University), David Steinberg (Tel Aviv University),
Jane-Ling Wang (UC Davis), and James Zidek (University of British Columbia). The prize will be awarded in a ceremony taking place at KU Leuven, Belgium on Wednesday October 12, 2022.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would be happy if you could communicate this announcement to your readers. For your information we are attaching three documents with increasing detail: a general press communique for a broad audience, a short text for statisticians,
and a longer text for statisticians. We would also appreciate a link to the prize website
<a href="http://www.rousseeuwprize.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.rousseeuwprize.org</a> which contains additional material, such as press communiques in French, Dutch and German.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With friendly greetings,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stefan Van Aelst and Mia Hubert<u></u><u></u></p>
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