International Statistical Institute
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The International Statistical Institute (ISI)is a professional association of statisticians. It publishes a variety of books and journals, and holds an international conference every two years. Its permanent office is located in the CBS building in Den Haag - Leidschenveen (The Hague), in The Netherlands.
It serves as an umbrella group for a number of specialized sections:
- Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (BS)
- International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)
- International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)
- International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)
- International Association for Statistics Education (IASE)
- International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)
- Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC, ISI transitional Section)
- The International Environmental Society (TIES)
- Standing Committee of Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) is a sub-committee of the IAOS.
The Institute was established in 1885, and has about 2,000 elected members from government, academia and the private sector.
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[edit] Presidents of ISI
Some of the Presidents of ISI:
- 1909–1920 Luigi Bodio
- 1995–1997 David Cox
- 2001–2003 Dennis Trewin
- 2003–2005 Stephen M. Stigler
- 2005–2007 Niels Keiding
- 2007–2009 Denise Lievesley
- 2009–2011 Jef Teugels
[edit] Journals
ISI publishes the following journals:
- International Statistical Review, including Short Book Reviews
- Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts - Zentralblatt
- Bernoulli
- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
- ISI Newsletter
- Statistics Education Research Journal
- Statistics Surveys
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