Scientists working on the revolutionary 'R' programming language invented at the University of Auckland have won a top award intended to be a Nobel Prize for statisticians.
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, often called the ‘Nobel Prize for statistics’, goes this year to the volunteers behind a program that hardly anyone outside of professional circles knows (and that almost everyone uses). It is one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, and yet outside the world of data and statistics, hardly anyone […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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