What does it take to win the biggest prize in statistics?

A video on the International Prize in Statistics, a relatively recent biannual prize akin to the "Nobel Prize" in statistics. Who were the past winners, and what did they do to earn the prize?

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[avial]

Bold of you to assume I know the name of any statistician.

[XanderGouws]

To paraphrase Chappelle Roan, C. R. Rao is your favorite statistician's favorite statistician

[mnoble]

International Prize in Statistics? IPISS sounds like a proper nickname

[Antowan]

The Economics prize was added later. It is not an official one, which is why it says in honor of Alfred Noble. Which is why Math maybe added.

[julien]

0:53 Yup, that’s me. You may wonder how I ended up in this situation…

[bcs]

Well, Nobel died in 1896 and the prize started in 1901, before Von Neumann and Turing were even born, so I'm pretty confident nobody told Nobel that Computer Science existed lol

[dr]

i think Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, the designers of R, deserve this prize as well as many students and statisticians use R.

[monster]

Hey, this is an amazing video! Cheers to these great statisticians. Rao taught one of lecturers in undergrad. He could never stop speaking so highly of him!

[berjonah]

I'll definitely be interested to see who this year's prize goes to. In my opinion Andrew Gelman is definitely in the running. But given how new this prize is, there are others who ought to be considered first.

[jtuhtan]

Very nicely presented, I learned a lot and really enjoyed the reasonable pace at which you walked the viewer through the contributions as well as their significance.

[alexthelion]

BRO, thank you for this channel and your work! Truly truly insightful!

[javipdr]

Thank you Christian. Love all your videos. Thank you for making them, I'm learning a lot

[narex]

Great video! I'm very curious how the CR bound interacts with the infamous bias-variance tradeoff. I wish you had time to go deeper on the finer points of some of these breakthroughs, but I guess that's the nature of a 'best of' compilation like this :)

[timothyfriesen]

It would be great to see a video on active inference and how it relates to Bayesian statistics

[musaurelius]

You can make a video about the biggest unsolved questions in statisticslike the millenium prizes. Determined on the importance of the questions, the difficulty of the question and how statistical they are in their essence. :) My guess would be Andrew Gelman for the 2025 medal since Social Science are among the big 3 of statistics: Physic statistics, Bio-statistics and Social Statistics.He already have a lot of medals from his contributions on causal inference. He has mostly focused on social science with regards to voting patterns but social science is used in many high-tech companies for social medias.

[wesleyd.]

Remember, data is only random from a frequentist perspective. Data is fixed according to Bayesian statistics!

[zaydmohammed]

Man do I wish you made these videos when I was doing my bachelors in statistics, would've removed a lot of confusion. Still though I really enjoy watching your channel and I hope your goal of making statistics fun for everyone succeeds!

[metasoft]

Thank you for the videos. The story I heard as a student was Nobel's wife was having an affair with a Mathematician, which is why there is no Nobel Math Prize.

[XxAssassinYouXx]

Can we get a video on the Jackknife method or on MCMC?

[qwerty]

A topic thats fascinated me for a long time is the statistics of persuasion. How strong does the evidence need to be to persuade people one way or another?

Of course, rhetoric is the main way we persuade other people, but it's a nice thought experiment and a very bayesian challenge