The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of

statistical Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and

mathematical Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

theory and methods in the

bioscience ''BioScience'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It was established in 1964 and was preceded by the ''AIBS Bulletin'' (1951–1 ...

s, including

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

. It sponsors the ''International Biometric Conference (IBC)'', held every two years.

History

The society was founded on September 6, 1947, at the First International Biometric Conference at

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, US. Its first president was

Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who a ...

and its first secretary was

Chester Ittner Bliss Chester Ittner Bliss (February 1, 1899 – March 14, 1979) was primarily a biologist, who is best known for his contributions to statistics. He was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1899 and died in 1979. He was the first secretary of the Internation ...

Regions and networks

The society is organized into (mostly national) ''regions'' and (international) ''networks'', many of which also hold their own conferences.

Publications

It publishes the journal ''

Biometrics Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics and features. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used t ...

'', the '' Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)'' jointly with the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 27, 1839, and is the second-oldest continuous ...

, the quarterly newsletter ''Biometric Bulletin'', and the regional journal ''

Biometrical Journal ''Biometrical Journal'' covers statistics, statistical methods and their applications in life sciences including medicine, environmental sciences and agriculture. Typical articles contain both, the development of methodology and its application. At ...

'' (formerly ''Biometrische Zeitschrift'').

Past presidents

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