This year’s prize honored Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli, and Ruth Heller of Tel Aviv University for their pioneering work on the false discovery rate—a concept that has transformed how scientists handle multiple hypothesis testing.
Daniel Yekutieli
Benjamini, Yekutieli, Heller Awarded Second Annual Rousseeuw Prize
Tel Aviv University’s Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli, and Ruth Heller received the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their pioneering work on the false discovery rate.