The Institute of Statistical Mathematics is Japan's national research institute for

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. In October 2009, it relocated from the

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district of Tokyo to

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. Founded in 1944, since 2004 it has been part of the Research Organization of Information and Systems (). The Institute is represented on the national

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CCEP, accessed 2011-03-19

Notable faculty

Hirotugu Akaike was a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion (AIC). AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of statistical inference; additionally, AIC is the basi ...

* Genshiro Kitagawa * Motosaburo Masuyama * Yosihiko Ogata * Joichi Suetsuna *

Genichi Taguchi was an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s on, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians, but ...

Publications

The Institute publishes the scientific journal '' Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics'' and the

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software package TIMSAC.

References

External links

Official website
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