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Assunto: News from The World of Statistics: International Prize in Statistics
De:      "Wasserstein, Ronald L." <ron em amstat.org>
Data:    Qui, Outubro 20, 2016 12:25 am
Para:    "hotta em ime.unicamp.br" <hotta em ime.unicamp.br>
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October 20, 2016

Brazilian Statistical Association
Luiz Koodi Hotta

-Special Edition-
News from the World of Statistics

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October 20, 2016

International Prize in Statistics Awarded to Sir David Cox for Survival
Analysis Model Applied in Medicine, Science, and Engineering

[cid:image003.jpg em 01D22A57.AFE00060]Prominent British statistician Sir
David Cox has been named the inaugural recipient of the International
Prize in Statistics. Susan Ellenberg, chair of the International Prize in
Statistics Foundation, made the historic announcement via video
statement<https://youtu.be/J9aiBi58uik>.

A giant in the field of statistics, Sir David Cox is being recognized by
the International Prize in Statistics Foundation specifically for his
pioneering 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 very
different characteristics. From disease risk assessment and treatment
evaluation to product liability to school dropout, re-incarceration, and
AIDS surveillance systems, the Cox Model has been applied essentially in
all fields of science, as well as in engineering, that involve discovering
and understanding natural or human-induced risk factors on survival.

Interestingly, Cox considers himself to be a scientist who happens to
specialize in the use of statistics, a chord that resonates among many
statisticians and data scientists. His model has been used in
life-changing research breakthroughs, some of which include:

*         demonstrating that a major reduction in smoking-related cardiac
deaths could be seen within just one year of smoking cessation, not 10 or
more years as previously thought

*         showing the mortality effects of particulate air pollution, a
finding that has changed both industrial practices and air quality
regulations worldwide

*         identifying risk factors of coronary artery disease and
analyzing treatments for lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, obesity, sleep
apnea and septic shock.

His mark on research is so great that his 1972 paper is one of the three
most cited papers in statistics and is ranked 16th in Nature's list of the
top 100 most cited papers of all time for all fields.

In 2010, he received the Copley Medal, the Royal Society's highest award
that has also been bestowed upon such other world-renowned scientists as
Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, and Ronald
Fisher. Knighted in 1985, Cox is a fellow of the Royal Society, an
honorary fellow of the British Academy and a foreign associate of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences. He has served as President of the Bernoulli
Society, the Royal Statistical Society, and the International Statistical
Institute.

His 50-year career included technical and research positions in the
private and nonprofit sectors as well as numerous academic appointments as
professor or department chair at Birkbeck College, Imperial College of
London, Nuffield College and Oxford University. He obtained his PhD from
the University of Leeds in 1949, and prior to that studied mathematics at
St. Johns College. Though he retired in 1994, Sir David Cox remains active
in the profession in Oxford, England.

The International Prize in Statistics comes with a monetary award of
$75,000 USD, and will formally be presented to Cox at the ISI World
Statistics Congress in Marrakech, Morocco next July. Akin to the Fields
Medal, Abel Prize, Turing Award and Nobel Prizes, the International Prize
in Statistics is considered 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.

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