The King Baudouin Foundation has revealed the winners of the second Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, awarding $1 million to outstanding statistical research with real-world impact. This year's focus is on the False Discovery Rate (FDR) and methods to control it.
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Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli, and Ruth Heller, all from Tel Aviv University, will receive the prize, with 70% going to Benjamini and 15% each to Yekutieli and Heller. The jury also posthumously recognised the contributions of Yosef Hochberg, who passed away before the prize announcement.
