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Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian-American statistician Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, which is statistics’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

Detailed explanation-2: -Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, better known as C.R. Rao, who will receive the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, is an Indian-American mathematician. Because of his significant contributions to the field of statistics he will receive the prize considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the field.

Detailed explanation-3: -C.R. Rao, a pioneering statistician whose work recently garnered the International Prize in Statistics, which is considered the “Nobel Prize” of that field, sits for a portrait in his bedroom at his daughter Teja Rao’s home in Amherst. He was honored for innovations that date back to the 1940s. Rao is 102.