UNITED STATES, April 10, 2023
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C.R. Rao, a 102-year-old mathematician has been honoured with 2023 International Price in Statistics, called Nobel Prize of Statistics.
C.R. Rao is being conferred with the ultimate honour for his remarkable work published 75 years ago that has with age helped in advancement across several scientific fields.
C.R. Rao is a prominent mathematician and statistician who started out from India and eventually continued his career in United States. C.R. Rao published a paper in 1945 in the Bulletin of Calcutta Mathematical Society where he demonstrated three fundamental results. These were called the Cramer-Rao lower bound, the Rao-Blackwell Theorem and the third one formed the basis for a new interdisciplinary field information geometry.
The paper’s results have helped scientists efficiently extract information from data and paved the way for modern statistics. They contribute in various places from the Large Hadron Collider to A.I., data science, radar systems, and quantum physics.
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