International Statistical Institute

The International Statistical Institute (abbreviation: ISI) is an association of statisticians and the publisher of various books and journals . The institute is also the organizer of the World Statistics Congress . The office is located in the building of the Columbia Broadcasting System in Leidschenveen in Dutch The Hague .

Sub-organizations

As an umbrella organization, the ISI has seven sub-organizations:

abbreviation	Surname	since
BS	Bernouilli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability	1975
IAOS	International Association for Official Statistics	1985
IASC	International Association for Statistical Computing	1977
IASE	International Association for Statistical Education	1991
IASS	International Association of Survey Statisticians	1973
ISBIS	International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics	2005
TIES	The International Environmetrics Society	2008

history

The Institute was founded in 1885 by 81 prominent statisticians from governments and universities in London.

As of July 2017, the ISI has over 2,400 individual members, including organizational memberships, it has over 4,500 members from over 100 countries.

World Statistics Congress

The World Statistics Congress (WSC) is an international conference organized by the ISI , which has been held every two years at different locations around the world since 1887.

In 2013 the congress had around 2,500 participants, including around 670 students. Over 240 scientific meetings took place at which a good 1,400 papers were presented.

Current venues from 2000:

2001: 53rd ISI WSC, Seoul , South Korea
2003: 54th ISI WSC, Berlin , Germany
2005: 55th ISI WSC, Sydney , Australia
2007: 56th ISI WSC, Lisbon , Portugal
2009: 57th ISI WSC, Durban , South Africa
2011: 58th ISI WSC, Dublin , Ireland
2013: 59th ISI WSC, Hong Kong , People's Republic of China
2015: 60th ISI WSC, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
2017: 61st ISI WSC, Marrakech , Morocco
2019: 62nd ISI WSC, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia

Trade journals

The institute also publishes seven specialist journals:

International Statistical Review with the Short Books Reviews
Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts - Zentralblatt
Bernoulli
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
ISI newsletter
Statistical Education Research Journal
Statistics surveys

Known members

Hermann Losch (1863–1935), German clergyman, university professor, economist, non-fiction author and statistician
Robert Meyer (1855–1914), Austrian lawyer and politician

Web links

Institute website
ISI Multilingual Directory of Statistical Terms (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ISI ASSOCIATIONS. In: ISI website. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
↑ ^a ^b About ISI. In: isi2017.org. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
↑ List of ISI members. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
↑ ISI press release on the 59th WSC at news.gov.hk. In: Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
^ ISI World Statistics Congresses - Cities & Years. (PDF) In: ISI website. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
^ ISI World Statistics Congresses. In: ISI website. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).

[1] ISI ASSOCIATIONS. In: ISI website. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).

[isiweb-2] About ISI. In: isi2017.org. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).

[3] List of ISI members. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .

[4] ISI press release on the 59th WSC at news.gov.hk. In: Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).

[5] ISI World Statistics Congresses - Cities & Years. (PDF) In: ISI website. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).

[6] ISI World Statistics Congresses. In: ISI website. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).