C.R. Rao: A Statistics Legend | Stats + Stories Episode 276

The International Prize in Statistics is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field. Awarded every two years at the ISI World Statistics Congress, it’s designed to recognize a single statistician or a team of statisticians for a significant body of work. This year’s winner is C.R. Rao, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao’s created and been honored for a number of contributions to the statistical world in his over 75-year career. That’s the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories, with our guests Sreenivas Rao Jammalamadaka and Krishna Kumar. Jammalamadaka is a distinguished professor in U.C. Santa Barbara’s Department of Statistics and Applied Probability. Kumar is a management consultant in business analytics and consulting economist. The two wrote letters supporting C.R. Rao’s nomination for the International Prize in Statistics.