Nominations for the inaugural presentation of the 2025 David Cox Medal for Statistics, honoring a mid-career statistician, are now open and will be closing on 31 October 2024.
The David Cox Medal is a new international statistical award, commemorating the life and work of Sir David Cox (1924–2022). The medal is jointly awarded by the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Bernoulli Society (BS), the International Biometrics Society (IBS), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS).
The award will be given every three years starting in 2025, with three medals given each time. Highlighting that David was 48 when he published his 1972 JRSSB article on regression models and recognising his support of young researchers, the medals will be awarded to individuals in mid-career, with an age limit of 50 (exceptions will be made for mitigating circumstances such as career breaks).
The awards will recognize research that is original, with conceptual insight and novelty, and which moves statistical theory, methodology or applications substantially forward. Candidates for the award will be assessed based on a specified body of work documented by no more than five published articles.
Nominations are open until October 31, 2024. The award announcement will be in February 2025. It is not necessary for a medal recipient to be a member of any of the partner societies for nomination.
Download the nomination form from https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/honours/david-cox-medal/
Nominations are also open for the International Prize in Statistics
Nominations are open through October 1 for the 2025 International Prize in Statistics, awarded for a major achievement developed over time. The prize—which can be awarded to individuals, teams, or organizations—is meant to recognize powerful ideas that have led to breakthroughs in statistics and data science and demonstrated impact on applications, methodology, theory, or practice. Previous winners are David Cox, Bradley Efron, Nan Laird and C.R. Rao. Visit www.statprize.org/nominations.cfm for details and the nomination form. Questions to nominations@statprize.org.