International Biometric Society

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International Biometric Society
(IBS)
founding 1947
Seat Washington, DC
purpose Society for biometrics
Chair Geert Verbeke
Members about 6000
Website biometricsociety.org

The International Biometric Society (IBS) (German Internationale Biometric Gesellschaft ) is an international professional and academic society . It is dedicated to the development and application of statistical and mathematical theories and methods in the life sciences . The company was founded in Massachusetts in 1947 . Its first president was Ronald Fisher .

Regions

The society is organized in numerous regions , which usually organize regular meetings of their own. The Austria-Switzerland region as well as the German and Polish regions founded the higher-level Central European Network (CEN) in 2008 , to which other regions now belong.

Meetings

The International Biometric Conference (IBC) takes place every two years . The annual conference of the German region (IBS-DR) is the biometric colloquium , which is held every 3 years as a joint DAGStat conference and (with a delay) as a CEN conference.

Publications

IBS is the publisher of Biometrics and Biometrical Journal . It also publishes the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES) in collaboration with the American Statistical Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jonas H. Ellenberg, Geert Molenberghs: International Biometric Society . In: Encyclopedia of Biostatistics . John Wiley and Sons, 2005, doi : 10.1002 / 0470011815.b2a17072 .
  2. ^ The International Biometric Society / About IBS. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ International regions. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Central European Network (CEN). Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  5. ^ International Biometric Conferences. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Biometric Colloquia. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .

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