The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from government, academia, and the private sector. The affiliated Associations have membership open to any professional statistician. The institute publishes a variety of books and journals, and holds an international conference every two years. The biennial convention was commonly known as the ISI Session; however, since 2011, it is now referred to as the ISI World Statistics Congress. The permanent office of the institute is located in the Statistics Netherlands building in Leidschenveen (

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Specialized Associations

ISI serves as an umbrella for seven specialized Associations: *

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability The Bernoulli Society is a professional association which aims to further the progress of probability and mathematical statistics, founded as part of the International Statistical Institute in 1975. It is named after the Bernoulli family of mathem ...

(BS) *

International Association for Statistical Computing The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) was founded during the 41st Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1977, as a Section of the ISI. The objectives of the association are to foster worldwide interes ...

(IASC) * International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) * International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) * International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) *

International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

(ISBIS) * The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)

Committees

ISI Committees fall under one of three categories: operational, special interest, and outreach. Current ''Special Interest Groups'' are: *Agricultural sciences *Astrostatistics *History of statistics *Professional ethics *Promotion of statistics in the life sciences *Risk analysis *Sports statistics *Statistics of travel and tourism *Women in statistics

Journals

ISI publishes the following journals: * '' Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute'' *''International Statistical Review'' *'' Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts'' *'' Bernoulli'' *'' Computational Statistics & Data Analysis'' *'' Statistics Education Research Journal'' *''

Statistics Surveys ''Statistics Surveys'' is an open-access electronic journal, founded in 2007, that is jointly sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canad ...

Karl Pearson Prize

The Karl Pearson Prize was commenced by the ISI in 2013 to acknowledge contributions, which must be a research article or book published within the last three decades, on statistical theory, methodology, practice, or applications. The prize was named after English statistician Karl Pearson. It is bestowed biennially at the ISI World Statistics Congress. The winner of the prize receives 5,000 euros and gives the Karl Pearson Lecture.

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John Nelder John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. Contributions Nelder's work was infl ...

were the winners of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize "for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983)".

Presidents of ISI

The organization has had thirty-six presidents. The current president is Steve Penneck. *1885 - 1899 Sir

Rawson W. Rawson Sir Rawson William Rawson, (8 September 1812 – 20 November 1899) was a British government official and statistician. During his tenure as a public servant in Canada he contributed to the ''Report on the affairs of the Indians in Canada'', a ...

(England) *1899 - 1908 (Austria) *1909 - 1920

Luigi Bodio Luigi Bodio (born 12 October 1840 in Milan–2 November 1920 in Rome) was an Italian economist and statistician, among the founders of Italian Statistics. He was the first General Secretary of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and ...

(Italy) *1923 - 1931 (France) *1931 - 1936 (Germany) *1936 - 1947

Armand Julin Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, ...

(Belgium) *1947 - 1947

Walter Francis Willcox Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 – October 30, 1964) was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from ...

(USA) *1947 - 1953 Stuart A. Rice (USA) *1953 - 1960 Georges Darmois (France) *1960 - 1963

Marcello Boldrini Marcello Boldrini (9 February 1890, in Matelica – 5 March 1969, in Milan) was an Italian statistician. Biography Beginning in 1922, he taught courses in statistics, biometry, and demography at Bocconi University of Milan, and then at the Uni ...

(Italy) *1963 - 1967 Sir

Harry Campion Sir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE (20 May 1905 – 24 May 1996) was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom. He was also first director of the United Nations Statistical Office. ...

(England) *1967 - 1971

William Gemmell Cochran William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of ...

(USA) *1971 - 1975

Petter Jakob Bjerve Petter Jakob Bjerve (27 September 1913 – 12 January 2004) was a Norwegian economist, statistician and politician for the Labour Party. Prominent positions include director of Statistics Norway from 1949 to 1980, Norwegian Minister of Financ ...

(Norway) *1975 - 1977 Milos Macura (Yugoslavia) *1977 - 1979 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (India) *1979 - 1981 Edmond Malinvaud (France) *1981 - 1983 Enrique Cansado (Chile) *1983 - 1985 James Durbin (England) *1985 - 1987 Sigeiti Moriguti (Japan) *1987 - 1989 Ivan P. Fellegi (Canada) *1989 - 1991

Gunnar Kulldorff Gunnar Kulldorff (6 December 1927 – 25 June 2015) was a Swedish statistician, specializing in estimation theory, survey sampling and order statistics. From 1989 to 1991, he was the president of the International Statistical Institute. Biog ...

(Sweden) *1991 - 1993

Frederick Mosteller Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 195 ...

(USA) *1993 - 1995 Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (India) *1995 - 1997 Sir David R. Cox (England) *1997 - 1999 Willem R. van Zwet (Netherlands) *1999 - 2001 Jean-Louis Bodin (France) *2001 - 2003 Dennis Trewin (Australia) *2003 - 2005 Stephen M. Stigler (USA) *2005 - 2007 Niels Keiding (Denmark) *2007 - 2009 Denise A. Lievesley (England) *2009 - 2011 Jef L. Teugels (Belgium) *2011 - 2013 Jae Chang Lee (Korea) *2013 - 2015

Vijayan Nair Vijayan (Vijay) N. Nair is currently Head of the Statistical Learning and Advanced Computing Group in Corporate Model Risk at Wells Fargo. He was Donald A. Darling Collegiate Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Eng ...

(USA) *2015 - 2017 Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva (Brazil) *2017 - 2019

Helen MacGillivray Helen Louise MacGillivray is an Australian statistician and statistics educator. She is the former president of the International Statistical Institute, the International Association for Statistical Education, and the Statistical Society of A ...

(Australia) *2019 - 2021 A. John Bailer (USA) *2021 - 2023 Steve Penneck (UK)

Notable members

* Horatio C. Burchard * R. G. D. Allen

References

External links

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Stephen Stigler, International Statistical Institute.
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