International Statistical Institute

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.

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

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

External links

• International Statistical Institute

References