The Italian Statistical Society (; SIS) is a scientific society established on 15 January 1939 as a non-profit

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by 42 founding members who approved the first statute with the fundamental aim of promoting the development of statistical sciences and their applications in economic, social, health, demographic, technological, productive, and many other fields of research. The Society carries out this task, assigned to it by the statute, through the organization of scientific meetings and conferences,

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, and collaborations with similar bodies at the national and international level.

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Since its establishment, the Society has grown in step with the rapid spread of quantitative methods of

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in all areas of

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and social life. The Italian Statistical Society maintains scientific collaborations with numerous foreign statistical societies, is affiliated with the

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(ISI), is a member of the

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(IFCS) through the SIS Section for Classification and Data Analysis (CLADAG), and supports the European Courses in Advanced Statistics (ECAS) program. The Italian Statistical Society publishes a monthly information sheet, ''SIS - Informazioni'', and the online journal ''Statistica & Società'', as well as supporting the publication of the journal ''Induzioni'', which is dedicated to teaching. '' Statistical Methods & Applications'' is the scientific journal of the Society, printed in English by the publishing house

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, created primarily with the aim of disseminating the main scientific works of the Italian school of statistics to other countries. Over a thousand members belong to SIS, the majority (about ninety percent) of whom are

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(Members, many of whom are

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s), and the remainder are entities and societies such as the

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(Istat), the

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, the Guglielmo Tagliacarne Institute, some

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, some large Italian municipalities, as well as Italian ministries. The presidents of the SIS have been: *

Gaetano Pietra Gaetano Pietra (10 August 1879, in Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italy – 1961, in Villanova dello Iudrio, Udine, Italy) was an Italian statistician. Life and career Gaetano Pietra was a professor at the University of Ferrara. In 1927, he f ...

(1939–1941) *

Corrado Gini Corrado Gini (23 May 1884 – 13 March 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nat ...

(1941–1945, 1949–1965) * Luigi Galvani (1945–1949) * Paolo Fortunati (1967–1980) * Giuseppe Leti (1980–1988) * Alberto Zuliani (1988–1992) * Alfredo Rizzi (1992–1996) * Luigi Biggeri (1996–2000) * Benito V. Frosini (2000–2004) * Daniela Cocchi (2004–2008) * Maurizio Vichi (2008–2012) * Nicola Torelli (2012–2016) * Monica Pratesi (2016–2020) * Corrado Crocetta (2020–2024) * Marcello Chiodi (2024 to present)

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SISmagazine website

Statistical Methods & Applications website
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