Promoter of the Rousseeuw Million Dollar Statistics Prize, he is one of the fathers of statistical robustness theory
Professor and researcher in the field of statistics.
Peter RossioHe visited the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Cantabria (UC) where he presented the conference to his students
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Rossio studied statistics at the Free University of Brussels and ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He has also held the positions of Professor of Statistics at the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands), the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). For several years, he was a researcher at a statistical arbitration firm in New York. He is currently affiliated with the University of Leuven (Belgium) and has been Professor Emeritus since October 2022.
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Rossio Prize for Statistics One of the fathers of statistical robustness theory, Rossio, who has been awarded $1 million, develops methods that are slightly affected by the presence of anomalies in samples.
This award, which is awarded in even-numbered years, held its first edition in 2022 and was awarded to professors James Robbins, Andrea Rutnitzky, Miguel Hernan, Thomas Richardson and Eric Chetgen, all of whom are affiliated with Harvard University for their work. deduction. Causal inference seeks to identify the causes that generate certain effects, and separate them from other situations in which there is no causal phenomenon but rather a relationship due to another variable (which is usually hidden).
The impact of this methodology has been relevant to medicine, public health, economics, or psychology, and has been used in particular to evaluate the benefits of anti-inflammatory therapy in patients with COVID-19.
Caption: Professor Rossio during his lecture.
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